Review Request: Initial work on the flexible controller of the Plasma Media Center

[Alessandro Diaferia]

2010/3/26 Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com>

>
>
> > On 2010-03-26 10:04:12, Marco Martin wrote:
> > > still can't comment on how it looks, i hope to have time to try it
> today.
> > > in general i agree it should behave quite differently with diffrent
> type of medis, but i would also like being able to browse in a folder and
> being able to see anything it could contain, regardless if it's
> audio/video/pictures whatever, so it wouldn't be a type in particular..
> > >
> > > also i feel that defining a set of "modes" this way it can be quite
> rigid. i can see in the future people wanting to write plugins to make it do
> radically different types of things. i would like for instance being able to
> browse launchers of applications to be able to have a "games" section for
> instance and i think it would be possible only by keeping things as more
> generic as possible.
> > >
> > > when i'll have played a bit with it i will have clearer ideas perhaps.
> however i do think the general idea is correct, a rigid set of "modes" is a
> bit too much however
> >
> > Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
> >     Ok, so a flexible collection of modes will be fine I guess?
> >     As per the use case you suggested, we can have a plugin to add a new
> mode. Though we'll need some discussion on IRC over this. See you there :)
>
> ok, trying the patch i can see what it's trying to do and i like it, it
> basically boils down to:
> for some media type a particular control may or may not be neede (with
> maybe some behavioural differences in single controls) so what i think would
> be rocking is:
> -as is obvious and was aleady been done 2 modes: browsing and playing,
> would be basically if something is being played or not and react by showning
> or hiding controls by default)
>
> when browsing:
> see what are the mimetypes disaplayed in the folder, if the focus of the
> current item changes, change the displayed controls accordingly.
> when playing change the controls according to the currently played mime
> type.
>
> so what is available is mmetype dependent, a plugin could want to register
> an association mimetype->what i want, so a picture won't have play/stop
> buttons and the playlist would be visible by default only for music...
>
> if we will be able to play different mimetypes at once (the example of
> photos+music) the available stuff will be the sum of all the available
> controls for each mimetype.
>
> similarly we could define a way to allow a mimetype to be played together
> another one (always examples of music+photos)
>
> it's still a very abstract idea but hope t kinda gives it ;)
>
>
I'm rather in favour of this kind of aproach. One more thing that could be
defined is whether the kind of media the backend is showing can be "played"
in background or not. This way we can start a music playlist and then go
back and switch to the pictures-backend while listening to music. We can now
start a slide-show listening to music. Of course playing a video would stop
in-background music..

 Anyway, i like how things are taking shape, keep it up guys :)


> - Marco
>
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> On 2010-03-25 19:01:32, Christophe Olinger wrote:
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> > (Updated 2010-03-25 19:01:32)
> >
> >
> > Review request for Plasma.
> >
> >
> > Summary
> > -------
> >
> > This patch extends the controller applet by having 6 different layout
> modes which are adapted to what the media center is currently used for, i.e.
> browsing pictures, playing videos, etc. It sends a signal to the containment
> with the current mode. The containment then relayouts the other applets and
> configures them for the current Mode. These modes are defined as enum in the
> libs.
> > *The browser no longer has any controls. Those are now in the controller.
> > *The controller also has a show/hide playlist button and a toggle
> autohide button for itself.
> > *The different modes do not have sensible functions yet. I also need to
> work on configuring the applets for each mode, like telling the browser to
> hide, or the player to show.
> > *The controller is not really beautiful. I want animations for show(hide
> icons. I want the modeswitch button in a "drawer" perhaps. The toggle
> buttons need effects.
> >
> >
> > Diffs
> > -----
> >
> >
> /trunk/playground/base/plasma/MediaCenterComponents/applets/mediabrowser/abstractmediaitemview.cpp
> 1107457
> >
> /trunk/playground/base/plasma/MediaCenterComponents/applets/mediabrowser/mediabrowser.h
> 1107457
> >
> /trunk/playground/base/plasma/MediaCenterComponents/applets/mediabrowser/mediabrowser.cpp
> 1107457
> >
> /trunk/playground/base/plasma/MediaCenterComponents/applets/mediacontroller/controller.h
> 1107457
> >
> /trunk/playground/base/plasma/MediaCenterComponents/applets/mediacontroller/controller.cpp
> 1107457
> >
> /trunk/playground/base/plasma/MediaCenterComponents/containments/mediacontainment/mediacontainment.h
> 1107457
> >
> /trunk/playground/base/plasma/MediaCenterComponents/containments/mediacontainment/mediacontainment.cpp
> 1107457
> >
> /trunk/playground/base/plasma/MediaCenterComponents/containments/mediacontainment/medialayout.h
> 1107457
> >
> /trunk/playground/base/plasma/MediaCenterComponents/containments/mediacontainment/medialayout.cpp
> 1107457
> >
> /trunk/playground/base/plasma/MediaCenterComponents/libs/mediacenter/browser.cpp
> 1107457
> >
> /trunk/playground/base/plasma/MediaCenterComponents/libs/mediacenter/mediacenter.h
> 1107457
> >
> /trunk/playground/base/plasma/MediaCenterComponents/shells/plasmediacenter/mainwindow.cpp
> 1107457
> >
> > Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3396/diff
> >
> >
> > Testing
> > -------
> >
> > I tested the controller itself. The actual effect on the other applets
> when changing modes still needs work.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Christophe
> >
> >
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Alessandro Diaferia
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