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 :)
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Saurabh Jain <saurabh...@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: saurabh...@hotmail.com > To: ksi...@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. > > 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 :) > > > Regards, > Saurabh Jain > > ------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:46:37 +0530 > > Subject: Re: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries > From: ksi...@gmail.com > To: saurabh...@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 <saurabh...@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: ksi...@gmail.com > To: saurabh...@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 <saurabh...@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: saurabh...@hotmail.com > To: ksi...@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 > > > > > -- > http://www.sinny.in > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > Cheers, -- Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com
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