MediaCenter Progress

Shantanu Tushar Jha jhahoneyk at gmail.com
Thu Mar 25 15:15:49 CET 2010


On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Christophe Olinger
<olingerc at binarylooks.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I have a probably very stupid svn question:
> If I submit my patch, how do I continue working on my project until
> the patch is accepted?. I suppose I still need to change things in the
> patch before it can go into playground. How do I send you guys a new
> patch without the changes that I have done after submitting the patch
> ending up in a newer patch?

If I'm understanding your question correctly, you just need to use
"Update Diff" in reviewboard and upload the new diff.

> (Sorry, I am very new to collaborative working :-))
>
> BTW, I use KDevelop4 beta 9. It's great!

Yeah, thanks to the KDevelop developers :)

>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha
> <jhahoneyk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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