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Subject: Re: Plasma shell -> Mediacenter
From: Shantanu Tushar Jha <shantanu () kde ! org>
Date: 2014-07-20 5:58:12
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Hi,
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Marco Martin <notmart@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 12 July 2014, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > The frameworks branch of PMC now contains a Plasma Shell which basically
> > loads the required QML components and looks/works exactly the same[1]. So
> > technically we are good to go if a user wants her desktop to be a media
> > center.
> >
> > However, it'll be nice if we can discuss on how the actual workflow could
> > be for a user. Here are some things I can imagine-
> >
> > * User can have a mediacenter activity which she can switch to for
> getting
> > the multimedia experience.
>
> I'm not sure how much it can work as activity,
> if you want that tough most o the mediacenter UI QML should be moved in a
> single containment (that may be good as well) while now is iirc mostly in
> the
> view of the desktop package
>
Do you mean that the current implementation won't support it, or the idea
itself is not good?
>
>
> > * Or, maybe she can configure the mediacenter shell to activate whenever
> an
> > external TV screen is connected (through HDMI or something).
>
> it could either switch the shell or just launch the standalone application
> (launching the application should be easy, maybe configurable from kscreen
> kcm?)
>
Or, maybe plasmashell exposes a D-Bus API that can load shells on the fly?
+1 for the kscreen kcm, I think it should be a nice feature in general.
>
> > * The device is a dedicated mediacenter device - the user tells Plasma to
> > always load mediacenter instead of deskop
>
> I think there should eventually be a session shipped by it so is just
> possible
> to login into it from the login manager
>
Guess the session will always run the same startkde script, how can we tell
plasmashell (rhymes :P) what to load?
>
>
> --
> Marco Martin
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--
Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530)
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On \
Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Marco Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a \
href="mailto:notmart@gmail.com" target="_blank">notmart@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 class="">On Saturday 12 July 2014, Shantanu Tushar \
Jha wrote:<br> > Hi folks,<br>
><br>
> The frameworks branch of PMC now contains a Plasma Shell which basically<br>
> loads the required QML components and looks/works exactly the same[1]. So<br>
> technically we are good to go if a user wants her desktop to be a media<br>
> center.<br>
><br>
> However, it'll be nice if we can discuss on how the actual workflow \
could<br> > be for a user. Here are some things I can imagine-<br>
><br>
> * User can have a mediacenter activity which she can switch to for getting<br>
> the multimedia experience.<br>
<br>
</div>I'm not sure how much it can work as activity,<br>
if you want that tough most o the mediacenter UI QML should be moved in a<br>
single containment (that may be good as well) while now is iirc mostly in the<br>
view of the desktop package<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you mean that the \
current implementation won't support it, or the idea itself is not good?<br> \
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px \
#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class=""><br>
<br>
> * Or, maybe she can configure the mediacenter shell to activate whenever an<br>
> external TV screen is connected (through HDMI or something).<br>
<br>
</div>it could either switch the shell or just launch the standalone application<br>
(launching the application should be easy, maybe configurable from kscreen<br>
kcm?)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Or, maybe plasmashell exposes a D-Bus API \
that can load shells on the fly?<br><br></div><div>+1 for the kscreen kcm, I think it \
should be a nice feature in general.<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class=""><br>
> * The device is a dedicated mediacenter device - the user tells Plasma to<br>
> always load mediacenter instead of deskop<br>
<br>
</div>I think there should eventually be a session shipped by it so is just \
possible<br> to login into it from the login \
manager<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Guess the session will always run the \
same startkde script, how can we tell plasmashell (rhymes :P) what to \
load?<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 \
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
--<br>
Marco Martin<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div \
class="h5">_______________________________________________<br> Plasma-devel mailing \
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Shantanu Tushar \
(UTC +0530)<br><a href="http://www.shantanutushar.com" \
target="_blank">http://www.shantanutushar.com</a> </div></div></div>
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