Hello Ben, It is really nice to read you and to see interest in QML from the media center community. I used to lead the Elisa/Moovida media center project for Fluendo. After the project was shut down a few developers decided to revive it by rewriting the same UI using QML. We called it 'Elisa Qt' and have been pushing the code on Launchpad since the beginning [1]. We communicate through mailing list [2] and IRC (#elisa on freenode). You may want to read the original mail announcing the project [3].
That's how it looks like so far when you start it: [4]. And live: [5] It also works on the N900 [6] and on a beagle board [7] already :) It's still the very beginning though a couple of people are referencing it on the Internet: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4340 http://conference2010.meego.com/session/how-create-music-player-30-minutes There is still a lot to be done and we have good strong points: a) an excellent UI technology: QML b) a very usable (grand-ma proof) user interface to start from c) experienced people on the team I hope that got your interest :) Let me know what you think. Florian [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~fboucault/+junk/elisa_qt [2] elisa-develop...@lists.launchpad.net [3] https://lists.launchpad.net/elisa-developers/msg00047.html [4] http://people.canonical.com/~kaleo/elisa/elisa_qt.png [5] http://people.canonical.com/~kaleo/elisa/latest.ogv [6] http://people.canonical.com/~kaleo/elisa/elisa_qt_nokia_n900.ogv [7] http://people.canonical.com/~kaleo/elisa/elisa_qt_beagle_board_720p.ogv On 11/21/2010 12:33 PM, Benjamin Zores wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone's currently working (or planning to) on a > QML-based MediaCenter application. > > I'm project leader of GeeXboX [1] multimedia distribution and Enna [2] > EFL-based MediaCenter application and, > for various reasons, I'm considering a switch from EFL to Qt/QML since > quite a while. > > Most of our codebase actually relies in 2 external libraries > (libplayer [3] and libvalhalla [4]) > that we use for mediaplayer, metadata retrieval, database ... so the > UI parts that actually make use of EFL > are minimized to their minimum. As a result, I believe that migration > should be affordable without complete rework of existing code. > > Though, instead of re-inventing wheel over and over again, I'd better > re-use existing code or extend existing projects if some already > exist. > So if someone's already working on a Qt/QML MediaCenter, please say so. > If no is and would be willing to contribute to one, please tell also, > I'd be more than happy to recruit new developers. > > Ben > > References: > - [1]: http://www.geexbox.org/ > - [2]: http://enna.geexbox.org/ > - [3]: http://libplayer.geexbox.org/ > - [4]: http://libvalhalla.geexbox.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Qt-qml mailing list > Qt-qml@trolltech.com > http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-qml _______________________________________________ Qt-qml mailing list Qt-qml@trolltech.com http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-qml
