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Subject: Re: FW: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries
From: Sinny Kumari <ksinny () gmail ! com>
Date: 2013-04-24 18:38:49
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <shaan7in@gmail.com>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 <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.
>
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 <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
>> 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 <saurabhskj@hotmail.com>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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, \
Apr 24, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <span dir="ltr"><<a \
href="mailto:shaan7in@gmail.com" target="_blank">shaan7in@gmail.com</a>></span> \
wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px \
#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Saurabh,<br><br></div>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 \
:)<br>
<div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>+1 \
<br></div><div>No sir / madam <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div \
dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On \
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Saurabh Jain <span dir="ltr"><<a \
href="mailto:saurabhskj@hotmail.com" \
target="_blank">saurabhskj@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr"><span \
style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Calibri;line-height:22px">Dear \
sir/mam,</span><div style="line-height:22px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Calibri">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. </div>
<div style="line-height:22px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Calibri">Also, I \
apologize for not sending my past e-mails to "<a \
href="mailto:plasma-devel@kde.org" target="_blank">plasma-devel@kde.org</a>". \
</div>
<div style="line-height:22px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Calibri"><br></div><div \
style="line-height:22px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Calibri">Thanks and \
Regards,</div><div style="line-height:22px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Calibri">
Saurabh Jain</div><br><div><div><div></div><hr>From: <a \
href="mailto:saurabhskj@hotmail.com" \
target="_blank">saurabhskj@hotmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:ksinny@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">ksinny@gmail.com</a><br> </div>Subject: RE: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. \
queries<br>Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:26:41 +0530<br><br>
<div dir="ltr">
<div dir="ltr">Thank you.<br>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. <br>
<br>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. <br>
</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Yes, manual \
ordering will be a nice thing to \
implement.<br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right \
now, playlist has very limited functionality. So, yes lot of scope of improvement \
here.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 \
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div \
class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div class="im"><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br>One more improvement which \
I would like to mention in <b>Pictures</b> section is that in presence of <b>proxy \
server</b>, picasa is unable to connect to the google account or to load the \
pictures.<br>
</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>PMC should pick \
up the proxy settings from your proxy settings in Network Settings in KDE system \
settings. You should check that.<br> <br></div><div class="im"> <blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">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.<br>
</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Yep that sounds \
like a good idea :) <br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.<br> <br></div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div \
class="gmail_quote"><div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 \
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div><div class="h5"><div><div \
dir="ltr"> <div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><br>Regards,<br>Saurabh \
Jain<br><br><div><div></div><hr>Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:46:37 \
+0530<div><br>Subject: Re: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries<br>From: <a \
href="mailto:ksinny@gmail.com" target="_blank">ksinny@gmail.com</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:saurabhskj@hotmail.com" \
target="_blank">saurabhskj@hotmail.com</a><br></div>CC: <a \
href="mailto:Plasma-devel@kde.org" \
target="_blank">Plasma-devel@kde.org</a><div><div><br><br><div dir="ltr"> \
<br><div>Doing CC to plasma-devel<br><br><br></div><div>Thanks Saurabh for you \
effort. Nice start! <br></div><div><br><div>On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Saurabh \
Jain <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saurabhskj@hotmail.com" \
target="_blank">saurabhskj@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">
<div dir="ltr">
<div dir="ltr">
<div dir="ltr">
<div dir="ltr">Dear mam,<br><br>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.<div>
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. <br>
<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>+1<br></div><div>I \
like this idea, this need to be implemented.<br> <br></div><blockquote \
style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div \
dir="ltr"><div>Improvements in following sections can be:- <br><u><b>Music</b></u> \
<b>:-<br></b>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 <br>
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. <br>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.<br><br>
</div><div>Shuffle works in Playlist. Repeat option can be \
added.<br></div><div>Sorting of media is needed on the basis of different field like \
size, date, name, length etc.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote \
style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div \
dir="ltr"><div></div><div><br><u><b>Pictures:-<br></b></u>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. <br>
<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.<br>
<br></div><div>Yeah, we can think of viewing selected pictures in \
slideshow.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid \
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div> <div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div \
dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><u><b>Videos:-<br></b></u>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. <br>
<u><b><br></b></u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Earlier \
Full screen Icon was in Media Player but it didn't fit well there so we moved it \
into configuration section in HomeScreen.<br>
</div><div>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.<br></div><div>
<br>
</div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid \
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div \
dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><u><b></b></u>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. <br>
<u><b><br></b></u>Regards,<br>Saurabh \
Jain<br><div><br></div><div><div><div></div><hr>Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:50:59 \
+0530<br>Subject: Re: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries<br>From: <a \
href="mailto:ksinny@gmail.com" target="_blank">ksinny@gmail.com</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:saurabhskj@hotmail.com" \
target="_blank">saurabhskj@hotmail.com</a></div><div><div><br><br><div \
dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Saurabh,<br><br></div>Thank you for showing your \
interest towards this project. <br>
</div>I liked some of your ideas which you have mentioned but I think you have \
deviated from our idea's title which is "<span \
style="font-weight:normal"><span>Improvements and enhancements for Plasma Media \
Center". <br>
<br></span></span></div><span style="font-weight:normal"><span>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 <a href="http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center" \
target="_blank">http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center</a> <a \
href="http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center" \
target="_blank">http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center</a> .<br>
<br><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-weight:normal"><span>Try to use \
PMC and then see what all improvements you can do in it to make it better and more \
usable. <br> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-weight:normal"><span>I hope \
you understood what exactly we want.<br></span></span></div><div><span \
style="font-weight:normal"><span><br> Thanks<br></span></span></div><span \
style="font-weight:normal"><span></span></span></div><div><br><br><div> On Thu, Apr \
18, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Saurabh Jain <span dir="ltr"><<a \
href="mailto:saurabhskj@hotmail.com" \
target="_blank">saurabhskj@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear mam,</div><div><br></div>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 (<i> process- based </i>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") . <div>
<br></div><div>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. </div><div>Synchronization feature- I \
would like to discuss with you on IRC as I am having some queries related to its \
implementation. </div>
<div>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? \
</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Saurabh Jain</div>
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<br><div><div><div></div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:saurabhskj@hotmail.com" \
target="_blank">saurabhskj@hotmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:ksinny@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">ksinny@gmail.com</a><br>Subject: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries<br>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:53:52 +0530<br><br>
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</div><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear *mam,</div><div><div><div>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- <b>Improvements and enhancements for Plasma Media \
Center. </b></div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Kindly let me know your opinions on the above mentioned \
ideas.</div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div>Regards and \
Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Saurabh Jain</div><div>Coordinator, Programming \
Club</div>
<div>B.Tech'15, C.S.E.</div><div>IIT Mandi</div><div>Ph: <a \
href="tel:%2B91-9805377265" value="+919805377265" \
target="_blank">+91-9805377265</a></div></div></div> </div>
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