On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 17:51 +0100, Christian F.K. Schaller wrote: > Hi, > Thought someone from Fluendo should chime in on this as Elisa been > mentioned. In general we would be interested in having Elisa > be the media center add-on to GNOME. So the question is what the > community would expect from a 'GNOME media center'. > > We are already using as mentioned by many gnome related technologies, > but since the media center GUI is so different we feel a lot of the > stack is not really relevant, the same goes for the HIG. While we try to > do intelligent GUI design with Elisa there is IMHO not really that much > of the HIG that applies directly, but of course we try to use it for > inspiration. > > We do want to integrate as widely as possible with other applications, > be that through upnp a/v and DAAP etc. and I think that it would be > mutually beneficial for both Elisa and the rest of the media > applications if we managed to create a standard for how to store media > files in the form of a certain directory layout and naming and so on. > that should be the first step. Right now, I have to create separate music databases whether I use banshee or rhythmbox (or at least that's how it was last times I switched from one to the other).
Also, making this 'database' keep videos, photos, etc, would be a good first step. > I guess from our point of view we would be interested in hearing what > requirements/expectations people have for something like a media center > solution to be included as a 'part of GNOME'. > > A media center interface is in some sense an alternative GUI to the > desktop, so my thinking so far is that we should both do a GNOME menu > entry for Elisa and a GDM entry to log directly into Elisa. > for the GNOME interface (to be run on a GNOME desktop), I really think this is very much needed. While we, at least myself, are ok with music (rhythmbox and banshee are great) and photos (gthumb and f-spot), we have nothing similar to this for videos. It would so be really nice to have a simple interface to all your music and videos and photos, without having to run the full GDM Elisa session. -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list