Hi Shantanu, Thanks for the feedback. I have mentioned a lot more ideas which were categorized by different sections like Music, etc. in my earlier mails to Sinny. I hope you went through them all. If not, please visit those mails and give me your feedback for that as well. For the convenience of reading those emails with ease, I have mentioned the word "IDEA" just before the idea is being explained. Thanks and Regards,Saurabh Jain
> Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:41:11 +0530 > From: Shantanu Tushar Jha <shaan...@gmail.com> > To: plasma-devel@kde.org > Subject: Re: FW: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries > Message-ID: > <CABQ4Km_BMesjjQ0g7H9exOP9AAu-WGNs6ebdATAuXoGmi=s...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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 IDEA - > > 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:- IDEA - > > *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. > > > > IDEA - > > *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. > > > > IDEA - > > *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: > > In the following mail, I discussed some of the ideas which were both improvements as well as enhancements for this application with new features which I felt them to be added based upon by experience of using this software. Please go through them as well. > > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/attachments/20130424/6110a455/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > > End of Plasma-devel Digest, Vol 58, Issue 78 > ********************************************
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