On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Ashish Madeti <sskash...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Shantanu,
> If you think the 1st solution bring unnecessary clutter to the home screen
> , we can make it auto-hide like on the now playing screen.
>
> Another way to implement Solution 1, like if we presently click the empty
> area in the top and there is a media player instance it goes to it, we can
> make it go to the playlist page if there is no media player instance.
>

This sounds good, try implementing it and see how it behaves.


>
>
> On 4 March 2014 22:36, Shantanu Tushar Jha <shaan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ashish,
>>
>> Solution 1 isn't very good because it brings unnecessary clutter to the
>> home screen. Solution 2 is what we should be going for, however to get a
>> menu item you'll have to create a new backend and this backend will need to
>> run some QML code to bring up the playlist. Right now backends cannot do
>> this, so in order to do this you'll have to add this capability to the
>> backend system.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Ashish Madeti <sskash...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> In reference to the bug : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322820
>>>
>>> I have two solutions to the problem.
>>>
>>> 1. We can show the mediaController even on home screen (welcome screen).
>>> It will have an added advantage (can be implemented in near future) of
>>> directly playing the last selected playlist by clicking the play button on
>>> welcome screen.
>>>
>>> 2. We can add a menu item for "Browse Playlists" on welcome screen for
>>> music and videos.
>>>
>>> I will try to implement whichever is better.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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