I think what is needed here is an (albeit huge) co-ordinated effort into some kind of GNOME Media system, where a video player (Totem) and a music jukebox (Rhythmbox) and a media centre (???) can share code, libraries, UI conventions, and importantly, one database.
I don't see a lot of point in bouncing along otherwise - I fear the result will be a half-baked mess with no consistency. On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 19:13 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 17:51 +0100, Christian F.K. Schaller wrote: > > Hi, > > Thought someone from Fluendo should chime in on this as Elisa been > > mentioned. In general we would be interested in having Elisa > > be the media center add-on to GNOME. So the question is what the > > community would expect from a 'GNOME media center'. > > > > We are already using as mentioned by many gnome related technologies, > > but since the media center GUI is so different we feel a lot of the > > stack is not really relevant, the same goes for the HIG. While we try to > > do intelligent GUI design with Elisa there is IMHO not really that much > > of the HIG that applies directly, but of course we try to use it for > > inspiration. > > > > We do want to integrate as widely as possible with other applications, > > be that through upnp a/v and DAAP etc. and I think that it would be > > mutually beneficial for both Elisa and the rest of the media > > applications if we managed to create a standard for how to store media > > files in the form of a certain directory layout and naming and so on. > > > that should be the first step. Right now, I have to create separate > music databases whether I use banshee or rhythmbox (or at least that's > how it was last times I switched from one to the other). > > Also, making this 'database' keep videos, photos, etc, would be a good > first step. > > > I guess from our point of view we would be interested in hearing what > > requirements/expectations people have for something like a media center > > solution to be included as a 'part of GNOME'. > > > > A media center interface is in some sense an alternative GUI to the > > desktop, so my thinking so far is that we should both do a GNOME menu > > entry for Elisa and a GDM entry to log directly into Elisa. > > > for the GNOME interface (to be run on a GNOME desktop), I really think > this is very much needed. While we, at least myself, are ok with music > (rhythmbox and banshee are great) and photos (gthumb and f-spot), we > have nothing similar to this for videos. It would so be really nice to > have a simple interface to all your music and videos and photos, without > having to run the full GDM Elisa session. -- Alex Jones http://alex.weej.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
