PMC use case

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote:
> >> >> Hey everybody,
> >> >> 
> >> >> I think it will be really difficult to have the UI scale from 50"
> >> >> screens right down to 5" screens. At the moment we use a top panel
> >> >> for playback control (and mode switching) and will use a bottom
> >> >> panel for
> >> > 
> >> > i don't think the mode switching should ultimately be there, the modes
> >> > should be shown as mammoth icons in a main menu in the browser itself,
> >> > that would be a kind of "root folder" for it.
> >> 
> >> From the wiki:
> >> On PMC startup the user will see a beautiful home applet that has (PMC
> >> is meant to be fullscreen):
> >> 
> >>     * Buttons to switch to the following media modes: Pictures, Music,
> >> Videos (later: Games, maybe an all Media Mode)
> >>     * Area with information about your recently played media, highest
> >> ratings, things that allow you to jumpstart to a specific media.
> >>     * Possibility to add normal plasmoids, like note apps, web slice,...
> > 
> > do you plan to make that home applet the top bar?
> 
> No, the home applet should be the first thing that the user sees. Upon
> entering a mode, the top and bottom bars appear
> 
> 
> is not fullscreen enough,
> 
> > and put all the possible mode here will quickly run out of space an be
> > cluttered, in the bar there should be a single button, triggered also
> > from a single real key (could be esc or home, or whatever in keyboards,
> > the more adapt case by case on remotes)
> > that "home applet" if you want it really isolated could be a different
> > containment, so would be a totally standaloe fullscreen thing, but i
> > don't think i like it.
> 
> I more thought of it as an additional applet. On switching to home
> mode, everything hides and the home applet appears
> 
> > i really do think it should be right into the browser, the "modes"
> > together eventual plugins to do other stuff should be right into the
> > browser as items, so they can be as big as possible taking the whole
> > screen or scale decently if some day there will be many of them.
> 
> the general PMC home applet does not have a browser. each mode has its
> own specific home applet which actually is a browser which shows media
> specific dataengines. This one will have big icons

i fear this is just useless code duplication, really.
for this fullscreen menu you need exactly the same functionality of the 
browser.

Cheers,
Marco Martin