FW: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries

Wed Apr 24 17:11:11 UTC 2013

Hi Saurabh,

Nice to see your interest in Plasma Media Center, find my comments inline.
Also, you don't have to use sir/madam etc in your emails, just use people's
names to address them :)

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Saurabh Jain <saurabhskj at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Dear sir/mam,
> Please went through the below forwarded mail which is in continuation to
> what Sinny mam had presented her views on my earlier ideas. In my last
> email, I have mentioned 2 more improvements so I request you to please give
> your feedback to me.
> Also, I apologize for not sending my past e-mails to "plasma-devel at kde.org
> ".
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Saurabh Jain
>
> ------------------------------
> From: saurabhskj at hotmail.com
> To: ksinny at gmail.com
> Subject: RE: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries
> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:26:41 +0530
>
>  Thank you.
> All music, All pictures and All Videos are still not working on my system
> even after reinstalling the nepomuk packages. When restarting the
> nepomukindexer, I get the following error in the end-  Error:
> "/var/tmp/kdecache-saurabh" is owned by uid 1001 instead of uid 0. I will
> try to resolve this issue with nepomuk community.
>
> Yes, shuffle mode is working well and mistakenly I pointed it out as
> missing. What I would like to point out is once you have created a
> playlist, you cannot rearrange the existing order of songs to the desired
> one. The only way, which I found, to do so is to create an another playlist
> from the beginning.
>

Yes, manual ordering will be a nice thing to implement.

>
> One more improvement which I would like to mention in *Pictures* section
> is that in presence of *proxy server*, picasa is unable to connect to the
> google account or to load the pictures.
>

PMC should pick up the proxy settings from your proxy settings in Network
Settings in KDE system settings. You should check that.

> Also, pressing the "tab" key after entering the email id in google account
> section does not move the cursor to next section, i.e., password textbox.
> Keyboard does not seem to produce any output in some other situations as
> well.
>

Yep that sounds like a good idea :)

>
>
> Regards,
> Saurabh Jain
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:46:37 +0530
>
> Subject: Re: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries
> From: ksinny at gmail.com
> To: saurabhskj at hotmail.com
> CC: Plasma-devel at kde.org
>
>
>
> Doing CC to plasma-devel
>
>
> Thanks Saurabh for you effort. Nice start!
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Saurabh Jain <saurabhskj at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>   Dear mam,
>
> Thanks for replying me back and presenting your views. Yes, you were right
> and I did deviate from the main point as I used the software and liked the
> idea of building such an application and therefore I thought more in
> enhancing and incorporating new features in it.
> I forgot to mention some of the improvements, which I think, can be done
> in this application. The "open with" menu option which I mentioned in my
> first mail also needs to be improved as the user can see this application
> in the above menu but due to lack of functionality provided on the back
> end, the user does not get the desired output response.
>
>
> +1
> I like this idea, this need to be implemented.
>
>
> Improvements in following sections can be:-
> *Music* *:-
> *Search engine (in Songs, Album, etc.) does not seem to work at all. I
> tried searching for a music which is also there in the playlist but did not
> get any results (neither did it respond with search failure nor with song
> found). Improving the song search can have an alternative if sorting
> feature is introduced by virtue of which user can sort the albums, songs
> etc according to their names. Player can be enhanced with modes like
> repeat, shuffle, etc. and reordering of songs in the playlist is also not
> there.
>
>
> Ummm, For me search works fine for Artist, Album and songs works fine but
> yeah, it doesn't display message when search result is zero.
>
> Shuffle works in Playlist. Repeat option can be added.
> Sorting of media is needed on the basis of different field like size,
> date, name, length etc.
>
>
> *Pictures:-
> *Again, clicking on "All Picture" does not produce any results. Every
> time if the user has to view the pictures, he/she has to browse the
> pictures in the folders first and then load it. Further, just like we have
> the option to select some files and play them only, in a similar fashion,
> we can have option to select some pictures and then view them via slide
> show.
>
>
> I guess, your Nepomuk indexer is not running or maybe haven't indexed your
> picture directory. Check with that then All Picture will work fine.
>
> Yeah, we can think of viewing selected pictures in slideshow.
>
>
> *Videos:-
> *The full screen mode toggle button can be added into video section so
> that the user can directly watch the video in full screen mode. Also, many
> a times, it happens that the user downloads the subtitles of the movie
> which he/she wants to watch as the movie is not in his/her native language.
> For eg. if the movie's name is abc.avi, the subtitle's file is renamed to
> abc.en.srt in order to view the subtitle along with the movie in media
> player. The plasma media center is unable to show the subtitles when the
> movie is being played.
> *
> *
>
>
> Earlier Full screen Icon was in Media Player but it didn't fit well there
> so we moved it into configuration section in HomeScreen.
> Yeah, Video subtitle doesn't work for all possible subtitles file. Right
> now it works only for ffile with filename.srt file. It needs to be improved
> to work with all kinds of subtitle files.
>
> **Kindly review the points mentioned above and please give me your
> feedback. I would try to explore more in media center and will keep you
> updated with any kind of improvements, that I come across and, can be done
> in it.
> *
> *Regards,
> Saurabh Jain
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:50:59 +0530
> Subject: Re: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries
> From: ksinny at gmail.com
> To: saurabhskj at hotmail.com
>
>
> Hi Saurabh,
>
> Thank you for showing your interest towards this project.
> I liked some of your ideas which you have mentioned but I think you have
> deviated from  our idea's title which is "Improvements and enhancements
> for Plasma Media Center".
>
> This application is not much mature not. That is why,  we are looking for
> improvement of existing features which we have. So, please go trough what
> all features are already available in PMC
> http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center
> http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center .
>
>
> Try to use PMC and then see what all improvements you can do in it to make
> it better and more usable.
> I hope you understood what exactly we want.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Saurabh Jain <saurabhskj at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> Dear mam,
>
> I would like to elaborate more on some of the ideas I mentioned in my past
> email. First of all, the feature which I proposed on the concept of
> multi-threading or thread- based multi tasking. Lets take an example in
> which user is listening to some music in the playlist. Now, if the user
> wants to play some music in other playlist or from the disk storage, it can
> be done only at the cost of termination of present session or starting a
> parallel session of media center (* process- based *multitasking ) but
> the latter one will be expensive and limited (in terms of Inter-process
> communication as well) and will require an extra memory space which will
> eventually decrease the CPU performance. Using thread- based multitasking
> in the code, rather than starting a new process every time in cases
> mentioned above, a program can run many instants of it at the same time
> which also share same memory/address space. Further, Interthread
> communication is also easily done and inexpensive as well. This concept can
> also be used to compare many pictures simultaneously and then rate it and
> tag your peers and share it (the feature of "sharing on social networking
> site") .
>
> I have an experience of working with multi- threading in Java as I built
> quite a few applets in my first year of college. So I think above mentioned
> features can also be coded in Qt platform.
> Synchronization feature- I would like to discuss with you on IRC as I am
> having some queries related to its implementation.
> I would like to know whether a scripting language like perl etc be used to
> introduce some more features based upon socket programming in media-
> center?
>
> Regards,
> Saurabh Jain
>
> ------------------------------
> From: saurabhskj at hotmail.com
> To: ksinny at gmail.com
> Subject: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries
> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:53:52 +0530
>
>  Dear *mam,
> I, Saurabh Jain, am a sophomore, B.Tech in Computer Science and
> Engineering student at IIT Mandi. I would like to participate in this
> year's google summer of code 2013 and therefore went through the projects
> listed by KDE organisation. I explored a couple of those projects
> thoroughly and hence, I would like to share some ideas and ask queries
> related to this project with title- *Improvements and enhancements for
> Plasma Media Center. *
> I recently installed the software on my linux system and found this
> project idea to be quite an awesome to begin with. The all-in-one
> integration keeps it apart from other software. Some additional features
> like implementing a search engine which shows all the results irrespective
> of whether its a music, picture or video. Using the concept of
> multi-threading, multiple files of same type can be executed in parallel.
> Using this feature, if the user wants to compare the two files, in case of
> pictures, then he/she can do it with ease. Another feature which is
> synchronizing your files stored on the mobile device can also be added.
> Sharing of files on the social networking site can also be incorporated in
> this software which can be done using the concept of socket programming.
> At present, based upon my experience in using this software, any file like
> a song etc cannot be directly played with this application by just right
> clicking on that file and then choosing this application in the "open with"
> menu option. Adding this feature will make the user to play the file
> directly rather than first opening the software and then browsing the file
> in the directory, in case the file is not already present there in the
> media center.
>
> Kindly let me know your opinions on the above mentioned ideas.
>
> Regards and Thanks,
>
> Saurabh Jain
> Coordinator, Programming Club
> B.Tech'15, C.S.E.
> IIT Mandi
> Ph: +91-9805377265
>
>
>
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