2010/3/30 Sebastian Kügler <se...@kde.org> > On Monday 29 March 2010 21:02:06 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > thoughts? > > I don't agree with the "PMC should target notebooks" as primary usecase > bit. I really > think that this thing should be developed to have its UI run on a TV, > preferably HD- > Ready or Full-HD resolution. Those devices tend to be easily hooked up with > a > computer nowadays (as Jane knows), (ours has both HDMI and D-Sub and is > also a fine > monitor). The key difference is wether to rely on a mouse pointer or not, > and how > interaction looks like otherwise. > > Now that's of course me being selfish, because I, at some point, want to > use PMC on > this kind of device as my Media Center. What I have in mind is roughly: > > - PMC running on a netbook or comparatively cheap hardware > - easily controllable from a 10 foot distance, using a remote control or a > wiimote > - connected to the Internet, so web video (youtube, blip, miro, ...) should > be first > class citizens > - access to the local and networked media library (in the same way ("it > doesn't > matter where it's stored") via SMB, uPnP, HTTP > - built-in web browser that's basically usable by a remote / wiimote(*) as > well > - full-screen media player with overlaid Plasma widgets to control playback > and > playlist > - good bookmarking support (favourites for web and local videos, easy way > to > find/remember the current/next episode of a TV show) > - contextual information for content (Nepomuk, IMDB, discogs, ...) > - Remotely editable playlist (pull up your notebook / n900 and edit the > playlist on > the PMC without interrupting playback) > > The key is really to support commodity hardware, things people already have > or can > get rather inexpensively and turn it into a media center with little effort > (basically install PMC, and hook up the TV to it). > >
> (*) I've played around with a wiimote last weekend and now have a Qt-style > class that > can be used to interact with the features of a wiimote, buttons, LEDs, > accelerometers > and haptic feedback at this point. I've got myself a copy of O'Reilly's > "designing > gestural interfaces", and I think we can get quite far, from a > functionality and an > intuitiveness point of view by using such a device as main controller. > That's > something I work on in a lost hour here and there. > Do you have some code i can look at/contribute to? I have a wiimote and I'd like to start playing with it for the PMC. Am I supposed to have infrared on my laptop? > > Some of the above are quite specific ideas, and it might be different from > what other > people think about it. In any event, while developing, please keep the > above in mind, > so I won't have to do it all myself when I scratch my itches. :) > > Cheers, > -- > sebas > > http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > -- Alessandro Diaferia KDE Developer KDE e.V. member
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