GSOC Project Proposal Draft :: Improvement and Enhancements for Plasma Media Center

[Sinny Kumari]

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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Akshay Ratan <akshayratan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello everyone,


Hi!


>                       I am working on the Project :: *Improvement and
> Enhancements for Plasma Media Center*. Before finalizing my GSOC
> Proposal, I wish to share a few ideas which I have regarding the project
> besides those which are mentioned in the KDE Community wiki. As we all know
> this year, KDE theme for GSOC is "Polishing Existing Things", I look
> forward to help make PMC even better.
>

Good to know that !

Few of these ideas are described below, some of which I would like to work
> on:::
>
> 1. There is no option for subtitles in the video player. Its need is
> immense in any video player. Implementing the subtitle feature in the
> Plasma Media Center's Video player as a part of my GSOC would be great !
> Though there is subtitleprovider.cpp file relevant but still on testing,
> there comes no option for subtitles.
>

+1

Yes, It would be good if  we have option to add subtitles too.


> 2. Currently available backends for fetching media are from Picasa and
> Flickr. Extending the "onlineservices" library, so that after the
> implementation, backend support is available for Facebook and Dropbox.
> digiKam for that matter has plugins to import and export to various online
> services. This would not only make PMC Application better but also put it
> forward in the line of top image viewer applications.
>

Its good to have more and more plugins in PMC but I would suggest not to
concentrate on additional plugins. Instead of that try to focus on core
functionalities in PMC and improvement wherever possible.

>
> Line of action would be on the basis of existing backend support like :
> https://github.com/akshayratan/Plasma-Media-Center/blob/master/browsingbackends/onlineservices/picasa/moc_picasamodel.cpp
>
>

Don't look at moc files. These are  auto-generated file  when cmake run.
Look at
https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdereview/plasma-mediacenter/repository/revisions/master/entry/browsingbackends/onlineservices/picasa/picasamodel.cpp.


> 3. In the working of the Plasma Media Center Application, I propose to
> implement the "Keyboard's BACKSPACE KEY" to function as one-level before.
> Just as arrow keys are used to view pictures left to right and vice versa,
> backspace tool would be great as users can entirely control it using
> keyboard. Further, a relevant bug(though not exactly same) is already there
> on bugs.kde.org . The link is :
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317233 .
>
>
+1

Other than that we also have  to do some redesign of the flow so that
keyboard-only navigation is possible.


> 4. Improved indexing of metadata of videos using Webminer and Nepomuk
> Indexer.
>
> Though I am very comfortable in Qt C++ framework, I am not that much
> familiar with qml(Qt Meta Language)  which I hope to learn soon. Anyways,
> following is a qml function which needs to be polished to implement the
> backspace feature ::
> https://github.com/akshayratan/Code/blob/master/handling_keys.  This
> particular function is for ImageViewer in PMC. This feature I would like to
> take upon in my GSOC project.
>
> Besides this, following were the community ideas for implementation----
>
>    - Categorizing media better like pictures on the basis of tags, videos
>    according to different filters - length, quality etc
>    - Improving playlist search - should be able to search through artist,
>    album etc
>    - Folder preview in Local Media Browsing
>
>
> I would soon post a draft of my implementation scheme and further ideas
> framed in a proper proposal format. Please help me correct myself if I am
> wrong somewhere. I am looking forward for a positive response.
> I would further like to know in detail a little bit about the third
> community suggestion of "Folder preview in Local Media Browsing". Where
> exactly I should begin hacking for this feature.
>

You need to look into  Dolphin source code since Dolphin has this
functionality.


>
> To tell the Plasma Community something about myself- I am an ICT
> undergraduate student at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India. I love hacking on
> open-source. Did a Summer of KDE project on KMouseTool application last
> year and I am very comfortable in tools and technologies of open-source
> like GIT,CMake, Matlab,Qt etc besides being proficient in C,C++,Java and
> having a familiarity in Python,HTML,CSS,JavaScript.
>
>

Other than that looks fine to me . Try PMC again and again, you will  get
even more ideas :D


> Thanks !
>
> Cheers,
> *Akshay Ratan*
> *
> *
> (IRC NICK:: akshay_r  #plasma, #kde-devel)
>
> Blogs:: www.akshaycode.blogspot.com
>             www.akshayratan.blogspot.com
>


Cheers!
-- 
http://www.sinny.in
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