PMC use case

[daitheflu at free.fr]

Hi list,

I'm new here, so please be indulgent :)


----- "Marco Martin" <notmart at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 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.

I might misunderstood the aim of the "browser", but I don't think this will be code duplication : you don't browse Music the same way you browse Movies or TV Shows, do you ?

Cheers,

-- 
François