> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:41:11 +0530
> From: Shantanu Tushar Jha <shaan7in@gmail.com>
> To: plasma-devel@kde.org
> Subject: Re: FW: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries
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> 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@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@kde.org
> > ".
> >
> > Thanks and Regards,
> > Saurabh Jain
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > From: saurabhskj@hotmail.com
> > To: ksinny@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@gmail.com
> > To: saurabhskj@hotmail.com
> > CC: Plasma-devel@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@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
IDEA - > > 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:-
IDEA - > > *
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.
> >
> >
IDEA - > > *
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.
> >
> >
IDEA - > > *
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@gmail.com
> > To: saurabhskj@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@hotmail.com>wrote:
> >
In the following mail, I discussed some of the ideas which were both improvements as well as enhancements for this application with new features which I felt them to be added based upon by experience of using this software. Please go through them as well.