On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Alessandro Diaferia <alediafe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello people, > it's been a while since the last time you heard about me :-) I'm busy with > my thesis and everything will be over by the end of April. In the meantime, > anyway, i'd like to see the mediacenter stuff back again :-). > I have some ideas here and there in my mind to make concrete for the > mediacenter but one thing that reached a good point of maturity was the > backend library. I'd like to suggest this as GSoC project for the > mediacenter and i'd like to be mentor for this.
i would be very happy to see this going > The idea briefly: > there's some sort of complete api already that allows people to write > backends able to retrieve media stuff from services like youtube, picasa, > flickr and so on.. I was working on some generic dataengines for this > together with kde-silk people and i'd like to see this part complete. > YouTube, Flicker and Picasa have their own backends already even if some > work is still there to be done. The project would be about making these > backends ready and develop the relevant models for the model/view stuff of > the mediabrowser applet in order to allow browsing media contents from web > services. This way we reach 2 goals: a good example of how kde-silk is > important and one brick more in the huge wall media center land is. > > Ideas are really really welcome. > another important thing is getting the ui really going. probably it would be easier this year since we actually have qml in a near release state (see plasma-mobile), compared to last year Cheers, Marco MArtin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel