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

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 19 March 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 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?

yes, this is how i wanted it to proceed.
and is already semi began, since is possible to have a video as a separate 
window, what is still needed is the making the View transparent and on top of 
it.
it would become a kinda dashboard like thinghie

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Marco Martin