--===============3312747280480040624== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec5015d0ff790a704db1f71a4 --bcaec5015d0ff790a704db1f71a4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha 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 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. > 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@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 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@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 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@hotmail.com >> To: ksinny@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 >> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.sinny.in >> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.sinny.in >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Plasma-devel mailing list >> Plasma-devel@kde.org >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel >> >> > Cheers, > > -- > Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) > http://www.shantanutushar.com > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > -- http://www.sinny.in --bcaec5015d0ff790a704db1f71a4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable



On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <shaan7in@g= mail.com> wrote:
Hi Saurabh,

Nice to see your interest in Plasma Media Center, find my comments inlin= e. Also, you don't have to use sir/madam etc in your emails, just use p= eople's names to address them :)

+1
No sir / madam

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Saurabh Jain <sa= urabhskj@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear sir/mam,
Please went through the below forwarde= d mail which is in continuation to what Sinny mam had presented her views o= n my earlier ideas. In my last email, I have mentioned 2 more improvements = so I request you to please give your feedback to me.=A0
Als= o, I apologize for not sending my past e-mails to "plasma-devel@kde.org".=A0
Thanks and Regards,
Saurabh Jain

Subject: RE: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 20= 13 15:26:41 +0530

Thank you.
All music, All pictures and All Videos are s= till not working on my system even after reinstalling the nepomuk packages.= When restarting the nepomukindexer, I get the following error in the end-= =A0 Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-saurabh" is owned by uid 1001 inste= ad 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 mi= ssing. 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 on= ly way, which I found, to do so is to create an another playlist from the b= eginning.

Yes, m= anual ordering will be a nice thing to implement.

Right now, playlist has very limit= ed functionality. So, yes lot of scope of improvement here.
=A0
<= blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px= #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

One more i= mprovement which I would like to mention in Pictures section is that= in presence of proxy server, picasa is unable to connect to the goo= gle account or to load the pictures.

PMC sh= ould pick up the proxy settings from your proxy settings in Network Setting= s in KDE system settings. You should check that.
=A0
Also, pressing= the "tab" key after entering the email id in google account sect= ion does not move the cursor to next section, i.e., password textbox. Keybo= ard does not seem to produce any output in some other situations as well.

Yep th= at 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.
=A0


Regards,
Saurabh Jain
=
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:46:37 +0530

Subje= ct: 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 1:0= 0 PM, Saurabh Jain <saurabhskj@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear mam,

Thanks for replying me back and presentin= g 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 applica= tion in the above menu but due to lack of functionality provided on the bac= k end, the user does not get the desired output response.


+1
<= /div>
I like this idea, this need to be implemented.
=A0
Improvements in following sections can be:-
M= usic :-
Search engine (in Songs, Album, etc.) does not se= em 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 f= ailure nor with song
found). Improving the song search can have an alternative if sorting featur= e is introduced by virtue of which user can sort the albums, songs etc acco= rding to their names. Player can be enhanced with modes like repeat, shuffl= e, 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 y= eah, 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, click= ing 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 s= elect some files and play them only, in a similar fashion, we can have opti= on to select some pictures and then view them via slide show.


<= div>I guess, your Nepomuk indexer is not running or maybe haven't index= ed your picture directory. Check with that then All Picture will work fine.=

Yeah, we can think of viewing selected pictures in slideshow= .
=A0
Videos:-
The full screen mode toggle button= can be added into video section so that the user can directly watch the vi= deo in full screen mode. Also, many a times, it happens that the user downl= oads 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 sub= title along with the movie in media player. The plasma media center is unab= le to show the subtitles when the movie is being played.


Earlier Full screen Icon was in Media Player but it didn&= #39;t fit well there so we moved it into configuration section in HomeScree= n.
Yeah, Video subtitle doesn't work for all possible subtitles= file. Right now it works only for ffile with filename.srt file. It needs t= o be improved to work with all kinds of subtitle files.

Kindly review the points menti= oned 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 h= ave deviated from=A0 our idea's title which is "Improvements and enhancements for Plasma Media Cente= r".

This appli= cation is not much mature not. That is why,=A0 we are looking for improveme= nt of existing features which we have. So, please go trough what all featur= es are already available in PMC http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plas= ma_Media_Center http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Cen= ter .


T= ry to use PMC and then see what all improvements you can do in it to make i= t better and more usable.
I hope yo= u understood what exactly we want.

Thanks


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Saurabh Jain <saurabhskj@hotmail.com= > wrote:
Dear mam,

I would like to el= aborate more on some of the ideas I mentioned in my past email. First of al= l, 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 s= ome music in the playlist. Now, if the user wants to play some music in oth= er playlist or from the disk storage, it can be done only at the cost of te= rmination of present session or starting a parallel session of media center= (=A0process- based multitasking=A0) but the latter one will be expe= nsive and limited (in terms of Inter-process communication as well) and wil= l require an extra memory space which will eventually decrease the CPU perf= ormance. 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 "sha= ring on social networking site") .=A0

I have an experience of working with multi- threading in Jav= a as I built quite a few applets in my first year of college. So I think ab= ove mentioned features can also be coded in Qt platform.=A0
Synch= ronization feature- I would like to discuss with you on IRC as I am having = some queries related to its implementation.=A0
I would like to know whether a scripting language like perl etc be use= d to introduce some more features based upon socket programming in media- c= enter?=A0

Regards,
Saurabh Jain

From: saurabhskj@hotmail.com
To: ksinny@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- Imp= rovements and enhancements for Plasma Media Center.=A0
I recently installed the software on my linux system and found this pr= oject idea to be quite an awesome to begin with. The all-in-one integration= keeps it apart from other software. Some additional features like implemen= ting a search engine which shows all the results irrespective of whether it= s 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 o= n the mobile device can also be added. Sharing of files on the social netwo= rking site can also be incorporated in this software which can be done usin= g 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 rig= ht clicking on that file and then choosing this application in the "op= en with" menu option. Adding this feature will make the user to play t= he file directly rather than first opening the software and then browsing t= he file in the directory, in case the file is not already present there in = the media center.=A0

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



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http://www.sinny.in



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