FW: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries

Wed Apr 24 18:26:49 UTC 2013

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <shaan7in at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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 :)
>
>
+1
No sir / madam

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.
>

Right now, playlist has very limited functionality. So, yes lot of scope of
improvement here.

>
>> 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 :)
>

True, this need to be done. Other than that, keyboard navigation doesn't
work at many other places in PMC. All of them needs to be fixed.

>
>>
>> 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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>>
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