[PATCH] Add option of adding new playlists to Plasma Media Center

[Alessandro Diaferia]

2010/3/19 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>

> On March 18, 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote:
> > Please use reviewboard. I still didn't have a look at the patch but i
> feel
> > reviewboard is much better in order to point out eventual issues. The
> issue
> > with video inside mediacenter is due to Phonon and the VideoWidget
> embedded
> > inside a QGraphicsWidget, so it shouldn't be you :-).
>
> this is perhaps going to sound a bit odd and perhaps even contradictory to
> past direction elsewhere (e.g. to how we do things with plasma-desktop) but
> it
> probably makes a lot more sense for the media player to show video in a
> separate window that is positioned without window borders.
>
> that will allow video to be played using xvideo or whatever which is going
> to
> be a hell of a lot faster in these cases than pushing it through the
> QGrahicsScene.
>
> if one wants to have overlays on top of the video, then i'd suggest putting
> the video window _behind_ the Plasma::View window and paint the background
> of
> the Plasma::View transparent. this means requiring compositing, but that's
> ok
> in this case afaic.
>
> (this, btw, is exactly what some of the other linux based media centers do)
>
> anyone else have thoughts?
>

Me and Marco were thinking about the same. The thing is: this way the Media
Center (and so, specifically, the MediaContainment) should take care of
setting a transparent wallpaper? I feel we should be more careful but still
seems doable to me :-)


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Cheers

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Alessandro Diaferia
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