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

[Akshay Ratan]

Hello,
        Please Find Attached the proposal draft for GSOC 2013. I would look
forward for your constructive criticisms and feedback. It can also be
accessed on the following link:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/107169565/GSOC_Proposal_Draft.doc .

Regards,
Akshay Ratan
(akshay_r #plasma #kde-devel)

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

> Doing CC to plasma-devel
>
> 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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