PMC use case

[Christophe Olinger]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:55 PM,  <daitheflu at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm new here, so please be indulgent :)

So am I :-)


>
>
> ----- "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 ?


Well in this case we have a browser with different possibilites of how
to sho you the data. O focurse showing picrture data might be
different then showing Music data by artist. It's all about what your
want your data to look like (model/view chapter in Qt book helped me a
lot to understand it)

>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> François
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