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

Sun Apr 14 13:10:46 UTC 2013

Hi,
    In the previous mail, I put forward a few ideas for implementation for
PMC as my proposal for GSOC Project 2013.  I would like to seek
clarification regarding some of the feedbacks in the proposal.

   - Regarding the proposed additional plugins for Dropbox and a suggestion
   that we should use the account-sso to gather pictures from users web
   account, shall I concentrate only on the improvement of the existing
   plugins of picasa and flickr ? One thing we can really think implementing
   is this importing of pictures from user's picasa account . What do you
   suggest ?
   - By mistake, I copied the moc file link, thanks for pointing it out ! I
   intended to copy the picasamodel.cpp file only :)
   - Regarding Keyboard-only navigation, I proposed for backspace key
   implementation in the PMC as a means to go one level up. What other changes
   do you suggest. Certainly, It would be great to implement the keyboard only
   navigation. Plus, one suggestion from my side would be::  What is already
   implemented is that when we are inside the menu to view
   pictures/videos/music, pressing escape key takes to main menu but when we
   are actually seeing the pictures by opeing the gallery, then escape key
   should be there to go to main menu. This is one of the few extensibility
   which I propose. The KeyHandler.qml class will be used extensively for this
   purpose.

Some implementation insights on this :: Qt::Key_Escape can be used. A very
very short approach::
https://github.com/akshayratan/Code/blob/master/esacpe_key_demo.qml

What other keyboard features you plan to bring in PMC ?

   - I will surely look in the dolphin source code to have an insight on
   Folder Preview and prepare a short schematic as to how it can be brought in
   PMC.

Other than that, please advice me as to how should I exactly frame every
detail in my proposal for best results ? Any other suggestion would be more
than welcome :)

Best Regards,
Akshay Ratan
(IRC :: akshay_r)

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Sinny Kumari <ksinny at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doing CC to plasma-develhttps://
> github.com/akshayratan/Code/blob/master/esacpe_key_demo.qml
>
> You need to send email to plasma-devel at kde.org instead of
> plasma-devel-request at kde.org :)
>
>
> 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
>

-- 
Akshay
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