On Thursday 31 January 2013 13:39:00 Marco Martin wrote: > On Thursday 31 January 2013, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > On Thursday 31 January 2013 13:14:57 Marco Martin wrote: > > > pmc as is is quite a thing that i see more for another shell (set top > > > box > > > form factor or something like that) > > > > > > for videos i would certainly see a very simple video app that plays a > > > single video selected from fiels and that's it. > > > > > > but here is also where i think we kindof hit a wall. for music instead > > > we > > > shout either > > > a) make the files app extremely complex, or > > > b) delegate this to pmc and make it the "browser" of music, since while > > > listening music one expect to brose by artist/album/year, make > > > playlists, > > > connect to remote streams and so forth > > > > I think there is a place for both. If I just want to play a single > > video/song, searching for it in Files and having it played in a very > > simple player is probably what I want. > > If I'm sitting around with friends and want to create a playlist for the > > evening with them, an experience like the one PMC offers is probably > > better > > suited. That still doesn't mean that I need to know what "Plasma > > Mediacenter" is, though. I can just say "Browse my Videos" and I that > > starts PMC in the video browsing mode. > > i think it would make sense something like a threashold, ie when a type of > data is managed by files, and when its intrinsic complexity makes it better > to be managed by something else so that be it (like music, like emails etc) > if the application then matches with the general idea, of being a browser > of a particular type of data, it should work pretty well
Sounds good to me. If the application integrates well technically (like supporting tags, SLC etc.) as well as UX-wise, users simply won't notice the difference anyway. Applications like Kontact Mobile still have a looooooooong way to go before they are at that point, but the general idea works, I think. _______________________________________________ Active mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
