MediaCenter Progress

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Christophe Olinger
<olingerc at binarylooks.com> wrote:
> Hey Shaan and Alessandro,
>
> How are you doing? Hacking on PMC goes well and I hope I can submit
> the patch this evening or tomorrow. I implemented the following:
> - the top panel now has 6 possible layouts (7 if you count the home
> screen layout)
> - it has 4 buttons: Home, BrowsingPictures, BrowsingVideos, BrowsingAudio
> - in all browsing modes it now has the "go-previous" button of the
> browser. The browser has no buttons.
> - In video and audio modes, it has the complete playback controller buttons.
> - it has a show/hide playlist button which also disconnects and
> connects playlist autohide
> - it has a "pin panel" button which shows/hides the panel and also
> connects and disconnects the autohide signals of the panel
> - om mode switch, it sends a signal to the containment
> - the containment has a slot switchMode(MediaCenter::Mode) which tells
> all the applets to adapt, for example it tells the player to stop and
> hide in browsing modes, or it tellls the panel to change to
> autohide(true) or autohide(false)
> - the containment slot will eventuelly switch between media player and
> picture frame when needed.
> - mediacenter libs has the follwing enum:
> enum Mode {
> BrowsingPictures,
> PlayingPictures,
> BrowsingAudio,
> PlayingAudio,
> BrowsingVideos,
> PlayingVideos
> }
>
> When all this is submitted and hopefully eventually accepted, I'll do
> the following.
> - create a home screen applet and have PMC start with that one (I'll
> not touch the dataengines for the moment)
> - implement the remaining navigation buttons of the browser in the panel
> - implement a zoom slider for the browsers to get bigger previews
> - take rating out of the browser and put it in the panel
> - add slideshow button to the picture mode panel
> - add a bottom panel which works similarly to the top panel and can
> show information about media, like music analyzer, name of currently
> selected image, maybe rating and tagging here and not in top panel,
> etc...

If you've a patch ready, kindly use the reviewboard to put it up, so
people can take a look and review it :)

> - showing pictures and playing videos is reaaaaly slow. I hope we can
> implement Aaron's ideas about the player and also the pictureframe.

Yes, Alessandro and Marco are planning to be working on it (video) soon.

>
> Of course you, Shaan, can take over whatever part you want. There is
> plenty to do :-). I hope we get another irc discussion session this
> weekend.

Yes, it'll be very nice, I'll be available on Saturday from 3:00 PM to
8:00 PM UTC and almost any time on Sunday. So lets meet on IRC and
plan things out.

Cheers,


-- 
Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
http://www.shantanutushar.com

>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
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