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This page describes the goals for Plasma Media Center (PMC), explains the design choices being made and details the outstanding tasks remaining.  
This page describes the goals for Plasma Media Center (PMC), explains the design choices being made and details the outstanding tasks remaining.  
== Goal ==
To have a media center experience that makes it very easy for people to enjoy their multimedia on a device.
== Release Info ==
=== Plasma Media Center 1.0.0 release ===
Plasma Media Center first stable release has been made recently on 20th March 2013.
* KDE Dot article link : http://dot.kde.org/2013/03/20/plasma-media-center-release-one
===Release and Feature Plan===
=====Plasma Media Center 1.4=====
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center/Release_1.4
=====Plasma Media Center 1.3=====
http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center/Release_1.3
=====Plasma Media Center 1.2=====
http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center/Release_1.2
=====Plasma Media Center 1.1=====
http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center/Release_1.1
== Form Factors ==
The following devices (or rather, form factor) are targeted-
* Desktop computer
* Laptop, netbook - similar convertible devices (touch support is good to have)
* Big TV screen connected to a computing device (such as desktop computer, raspberry pi etc)


== Use Cases  ==
== Use Cases  ==
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=== A PVR Style Experience  ===
=== A PVR Style Experience  ===


Jaqueline sits down on the couch with her husband Jack and they turn on the television and their Plasma Media Center set top box. They grab the remote control and check the videos that they had recorded / downloaded but haven't watched yet. They select an episode of House and another of Fawlty Towers and press "Play".  
Jaqueline sits down on the couch with her husband Jack and they turn on the television and their Plasma Media Center set top box. They grab the remote control and check the videos that they had recorded / downloaded but haven't watched yet. They select an episode of House and another of Fawlty Towers and press "Play".
 
=== Media Center for Plasma Active  ===


== Design Decisions ==
PMC now works well with Plama Active. Small video showing PMC running on ExoPC at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8yV2NKiADM .
 
== Design  ==


=== Architecture  ===
=== Architecture  ===


(needs updating, we did not go the Mediacenter widget route)
On a very high level, PMC is composed of QML components for different parts of the MediaCenter.
 
[http://www.binarylooks.com/upload/PMC_structure.odp Source] (OpenOffice Presentation)


[[Image:PMC architecture v0 1.png|thumb|left]]
==== Media Elements ====


<br>
* Media Welcome
It is a QML componnet which hosts the welcome screen which is presented to the user when PMC starts up.


=== Video In A Separate Window  ===
* Media Browser
It is a QML component which allows user to browse through the media from a backend and to select the desired media to play or view.


Video will be played in a full screen, top level window with a full screen Plasma::View on top of it as a separate window. This means PMC will require working desktop effects and that the Plasma::View will need a transparent background in these cases rather than a wallpaper.  
* Media Player
It is a QML component that uses Phonon QML to play Audio/Video and show Images.


=== Envisioned Workflow  ===
* Media Controller
It is QML component that allows user to control currently playing media status like play/pause, seek, volume.


Mockup: [[Image:Shitty Mockup by binarylooks.png|unfinished ugly mockup]]
*RuntimeData
another Mockup: http://docs.google.com/drawings/pub?id=1DQqFf303LVZ1iTnuUjQ_GdCcosMsUjwu9PROc8Vxkrc&w=961&h=1104
It is a QML component which handles various media information that is needed when PMC is running.


On PMC startup the user will see a beautiful home applet that has (PMC is meant to be fullscreen):
*Playlist
It is a QML component which contains list of media (Music and Videos) files added by user. User can add or remove media anytime from it.


*Buttons to switch to the following media modes: Pictures, Music, Videos (later: Games, maybe an all Media Mode. For each mode we will see all existing dataengines on this screen
*ImageViewer
*Possibility to add normal plasmoids, like note apps, web slice,..(maybe we will have a dashboard mode?
It is a QML component which is responsible to display picture in PMC. It contains pictureStrip component too, which  display all available pictures of a directory in the form of strip and provides flexibility to view next, previous and any random selected picture from strip.
*The need for a possibility to load fullscreen plasmoids is under consideration


Here some examples of dataengines that will be accessible from the home applet
==== Browsing Backends ====


*Pictures: Local (includes network), by Nepomuk Tags, by Digikam Albums, Flickr, Picasa...
Another very important component of PMC, browsing backends support PMC to have different sources for media to be used. Backends are plguins so one can, for example, write a plugin to show all images from a image sharing website
*Video: Local (includes network), Nepomuk, you tube...
*Music: by artist, album, tags, web services?,..
*Later maybe: web, games (PMC is not really a desktop replacement but an addtion).


Each mode is subdivided in different modes:
* Local files


<u>'''Pictures'''</u> (here you can do tagging, commenting, rating, basic picture manipulation like rotating. no editing!):
This backend collection allows the user to browse her local filesystem for media. It exposes three backends-


*Picture browsing mode: Grid View, list view, draggable, keyboard navigation, remote controls
** Local pictures
*Single Picture browsing mode: This shows your pictures fullscreen and allows flicking through your collections
** Local music
*Slideshow Mode
** Local videos


<u>'''Video'''</u> (tagging, rating, search imdb.com,...:
* Metadata


*Browsing, adding to playlist
This backend collection uses Plasma Active's metadata model to fetch media from Nepomuk. This should allow us to create groupings based on media tags (such as artist, album etc). Similar to local, this contains three backends-
*Playing.(browser hides)


<u>'''Music'''</u>
** Metadata pictures
** Metadata music
** Metadata videos


*Browsing/Playing with playlist. While playing music, browser stays visible
* Online Services
*Visualizations
This backend collection fetches media from Internet. Currently available backends are-
** Flickr : This backend fetches images related to the given search string from flickr.
** Picasa : This backend needs user to enter his/her Google login credential to browse through Albums and Pictures
** Youtube : This backend allows user to view videos from youtube. User can search using searcbox and can play video of his own choice in PMC


<br>
==== Libs ====
It contains core MediaCenter classes to help in functionality.


Each mode has a top panel in which only controls are visible that make sense.&nbsp;Each mode has a bottom panel which shows information about the currently playing media<br>
==== Shells ====


Log of IRC Discussion on March 30th is [http://plasma.kde.org/meetings/plasma-mediacenter-irclog-mar-30.txt here.]
This has the actual PMC shell which loads all the components and specifies the positioning of different components within shell. It also provides interconnection between various components.


=== Mockups  ===
=== Mockups  ===
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[[Image:Nuno pics.JPG|301x188px]]  
[[Image:Nuno pics.JPG|301x188px]]  


[[Image:Nuno playlist.JPG|303x189px]]  
[[Image:Nuno playlist.JPG|303x189px]]
 
'''These are from the very early ideas, for current screenshots, see the Status Reports section at the bottom of this page'''
 
=== Navigation within PMC  ===
 
*Keyboard
*Mouse
*Touch
*Remote control
 
== TODO  ==
 
=== Accessibility ===
Make sure that the following input methods work-
*Keyboard ( works almost fine now)
*Touch Gestures (pinch, swipe etc)
*TV Remote (wiimote etc)


=== Navigation within PMC:  ===
=== Visualizations for music ===


*Wiimote. (thanks sebastian for the initial work on this)<br> * Keyboard<br> * Mouse<br> * Touch<br> * Remote control <br>
=== [[Plasma/Plasma Media Center/Podcast | Rss Podcast Integration]] ===


<br>'''Status Reports ==='''
== Getting started ==
If you are new to Plasma Media Center and want to start doing development in it, then take a look at http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center/getting_started_with_PMC


'''2009''' [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/smells-like-summer-of-code/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/adventures-in-mediacenter-land/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/get-your-cover/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/plasmatube/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/browsing-your-medias/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/rating-your-medias/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/media-center-quick-update/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/still-alive/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/mediacenter-again/] [http://alediaferia.blogspot.com/2009/08/gsoc-ends-mediacenter-continues.html] [http://alediaferia.blogspot.com/2009/09/plug-your-model-in-mediacenter.html]
== Current contributors ==


'''2010''' [http://alediaferia.blogspot.com/2010/03/call-for-devs-part-i.html] [http://alediaferia.blogspot.com/2010/04/welcome-to-my-gsoc-student-personal.html] [http://blog.binarylooks.com/2010/05/plasma-media-center-status-report-and-introduction/]
'''Akshay Ratan''' - akshay_r on freenode


<br>
"'Bhushan Shah'" - bshah on freenode


== Shantanu Tushar's GSoC Proposal  ==
'''Marco Martin''' - notmart on freenode


(posted with permission)<br>Name: Shantanu Tushar<br>Freenode IRC Nick Shaan7<br>
'''Shantanu Tushar''' - Shaan7 on freenode


Proposal Title: Develop Plasma Media Center to make it usable for multimedia devices.
'''Sinny Kumari''' - ksinny on freenode


<br>A Media Center plays an important role in a platform which is going to be used on multimedia centric devices. The currently existing Plasma Media Center is having basic set of features and a solid framework for extension, but is not ready for a public release as it misses some important features.
'''Sujith H''' - sujith_h on freenode


<br>So, the main goal will be to add these features to the Media Center to make sure that its ready for a public release which people can enjoy. An important thing that will be kept in mind will be to make sure that it is usable when viewed on TVs and from a large distance.
== Past contributors ==


<br>Use Cases:<br>Shantanu has a laptop which he uses as a multimedia device on the go, or at home. He fires up the Media Center, chooses his favourite movie and enjoys the show. If he gets bored, its easy to just switch to the family pictures he had taken last vacation and view a Slideshow.<br>Mary has a system (notebook, netbook, desktop) connected to a huge wide screen display and uses it as a Media Center. She uses Plasma Media Center to listen to her favourite music and view her vacation photographs at the same time.<br>Mani has a Media Center setup as in the previous example and controls it using a remote control. She doesn't like using too many buttons and wants to do things in minimum number of presses. Its useful to have a keyboard navigation that uses only few buttons.<br>Mamta has Music organized in multiple playlists according to mood, and can select and play whichever playlist she wants to.<br>Ann likes to watch movies at home with her family and uses the Plasma Media Center to play music videos, movies on her Media Center setup. The setup might be a big hall where the distance from the screen might be large, so the interface should be clear from that distance.<br>Expected Workflow-<br>The workflow envisioned for the Media Center consists of number of modes, each provided by a plugin for the Media Browser. As an example, lets consider 3 modes - Pictures, Music, Videos. Each mode will contain a browsing workflow which is further described below-<br>Each mode's browser will have a number of categories which can be used to organize and display the media which are associated with the currently selected mode. For example, Music browser can contain categories such as Artist, Album, Year and so on while Videos can be organized according to their location in the file system, or tags.<br>It is important to note that the browsing workflow will mostly remain the same for all the modes. For example, when modes are changed, only the options for categorization changes, but the categorization behaves in the same manner, irrespective of the mode.<br>By providing navigational controls to switch to currently running modes (say, music in the background), and controls for the currently active mode, we can enable the user a seamless browsing and playing experience. For example, the user can add some Music to the playlist, play them, and then switch to the Pictures mode where she starts a vacation slideshow. Now, lets assume she remembers that there was a video related to the currently displayed Picture, she instantly goes to the Home screen, selects the Video mode and browses to the video. After viewing the video, she can use the navigation controls to quickly switch to the Pictures mode and resume the Slideshow.<br>Further, in many of the cases where Plasma Media Center might be used, there may not be a pointer based input, so it will be very critical to have support for TV style remote controlled input for the browse and play workflow.<br>  
'''Christophe Olinger''' - binarylooks on freenode, olingerc on gitorious.org<br>  


[[Image:Shan_Mockup_1.jpg|thumb|center|Mockup by Shantanu Tushar]]
'''Sebastian''' - sebas on freenode


<br>Implementation Details:<br>1. Plugin based modes-<br>As mentioned earlier, its planned to initially have three basic modes - Pictures, Music and Video which will be implemented using different plugins.<br>More specifically, the modes will be deriving from ModelPackage for implementation. For the categories, the existing controls in BrowsingWidget will be extended.<br>a. Videos Plugin for Media Browser-<br>The Videos plugin will essentially allow a browse of supported video files. Users will be able to add favorites for easy access.<br>Categorization options - Local Videos, Tags, Online<br>b. Music Plugin for Media Browser-<br>The Music plugin will allow Music organisation using the tags like Artist, Album etc. The user can add one or more media locations to scan for and organize content.<br>Categorization options - Album, Artist, Year, Genre, Year, All Music<br>c. Pictures Plugin and Picture Slideshows-<br>To make sure that there is minimum code duplication, we will be reusing the Plasma Picture Frame applet to display the slideshows. This will be implemented either as a Media Center component, or an applet shared with the Plasma Desktop, depending upon the feedback and suggestions from the developer community.<br>Categorization options - Local Photos, Tags, Online<br>Deliverables - Pictures Mode including Slideshows, Video Mode, Music Mode all with proper categorization<br>Mockups for the modes can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/8748559@N04/4478437139/in/set-72157623616440919/<br>2. Support for multiple playlists-<br>The playlist dataengine currently supports multiple playlists. The task remaining is to make sure that the playlist applet uses this information correctly. Additionally, the player will be redesigned so that instead of using its own internal playlist, it will now play media according to the signals emitted by the playlist widget. Saving playlists to the popular M3U format will be supported.<br>Deliverables - Creating new playlists, Saving playlists, Loading playlists<br>3. Keyboard/Remote Control key shortcuts-<br>Keyboard shortcuts will be added using the standard KDE shortcuts system, the Plasma tooltip manager will be used to provide informative tooltips for the UI elements, with graphic tips whenever possible. As mentioned earlier, touch screen devices will be kept in mind while developing.<br>Deliverables - 1. Full navigation and control support without the use of a pointing device<br>2. Keyboard shortcuts support (including multimedia keys) using KDE Shortcuts
'''Alessandro''' - alediaferia on freenode


== TODO  ==
'''Christopher Blauvelt''' - cblauvelt on freenode


=== Current Tasks:  ===
'''Lukas Appelhans''' - boom1992 on freenode


(Add in the format - &lt;Job&gt; - &lt;Assignee&gt;<br>
'''Onur-Hayri Bakici'''


Mention your IRC Nick at the bottom of the page)
'''Fabian Riethmayer''' - fabian on freenode


<br>
... add your name if you have contributed and its missing


*Support for multiple playlists - '''?'''
== Plasma Media Center IRC&nbsp;Channel on Freenode ==
*Accessibility - '''?''' 
*Home Applet design (=browser startup model)- '''Chris'''
*Zoom slider for browsing pictures mode - '''Chris'''
*More video dataengines (yout tube,...) - '''hayri'''
*More Music Broswer Dataengines (browse by Artist, Album, etc) - '''hayri?'''
*More Picture Browser dataengines(by tag, nepomuk,...) - '''hayri?'''
*Adding DVD/CD play support - '''?'''
*In general add support for removable devices - '''?'''
*Documentation - '''?'''<br>
*Setting up common development repository - '''?'''
*Wiimote support - '''Sebastian, Alessandro'''
*Port everything to QGesture in order to map different type of inputs to common actions - '''Alessandro, Christopher Blauvelt,anybody interested in this please let me know'''
*Remote control interaction - '''Christopher Blauvelt'''
*Declarative UI integration - '''Christopher Blauvelt, Alessandro'''
*Nepomuk integration - '''Alessandro'''
*Add a way to allow filtering the content of the browser. Maybe disoplay a magnification glass that displays a textbox when clicked - '''?'''
*Add a way to quick jump to a certain letter in the browser - '''?'''
*Different display modes for playlist (no cover, tracknumber on/off,...) - '''?'''
*Visualizations for music - '''?'''
*Spectrum analyzer - '''?'''


<br>  
* #plasma on irc.freenode.net<br>


<br> '''Christophe Olinger''' - binarylooks on freenode, olingerc on gitorious.org<br>
== Browsing and obtaining the source code  ==


'''Sebastian''' - sebas on freenode
You can browse the source on https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=plasma-mediacenter.git, or, if you wish to download the source, simply clone git://anongit.kde.org/plasma-mediacenter.git using git.


'''Alessandro''' - alediaferia on freenode
==Meetings / BoFs==


'''Christopher Blauvelt''' - cblauvelt on freenode
* '''2013''' Akademy 2013 [[/Akademy2013/]]
* '''2012''' BoF at Akademy 2012 [[/Akademy2012/]]
* '''2012''' December IRC meeting [[/DecemberMeeting/]]


<br>
== Status Reports ==


Plasma Media Center IRC&nbsp;Channel on Freenode<br>
'''2012''' [http://sinny.in/node/17] [http://sinny.in/node/18] [http://sinny.in/node/19] [http://www.sinny.in/node/23] [http://sinny.in/node/25] [http://sinny.in/node/27]


plasma-mediacenter on irc.freenode.net<br>
'''2011''' [http://sinny.in/node/12] [http://sinny.in/node/13] [http://sinny.in/node/14] [http://sinny.in/node/15]


=== Things to look at: ===
'''2010''' [http://alediaferia.blogspot.com/2010/03/call-for-devs-part-i.html] [http://alediaferia.blogspot.com/2010/04/welcome-to-my-gsoc-student-personal.html] [http://blog.binarylooks.com/2010/05/plasma-media-center-status-report-and-introduction/]
*geexbox’s libvalhalla. It might be a great way to populate tags based on filenames.
*how bangarang handles nepomuk tags
*The Nepomuk webextractor framework currently being implemented in GSoC2010 which will provide video metadata for movies and tv shows.


== Bugs  ==
'''2009''' [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/smells-like-summer-of-code/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/adventures-in-mediacenter-land/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/get-your-cover/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/plasmatube/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/browsing-your-medias/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/rating-your-medias/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/media-center-quick-update/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/still-alive/] [http://alediaferia.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/mediacenter-again/] [http://alediaferia.blogspot.com/2009/08/gsoc-ends-mediacenter-continues.html] [http://alediaferia.blogspot.com/2009/09/plug-your-model-in-mediacenter.html]
* Bottom bar widgets' layout is completely wrong (wait for QML?)
* Startup model should check which plugins exist and remove none exisitng
* On state change via background mode icons,  the browsing model does not change. We need an interface to tell the browser to load a model.
* The hover item for top row items (except fist item) disappears when the mouse is in the 3rd quarter from above
* In picture fullscreen mode, on picture change, artefacts appear
* In picture floating mode, on picture change, artefacts appear


== Repository  ==
----


Code is browsable at [http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/base/plasma/MediaCenterComponents PMC @ kde websvn]
Find the older design and discussions here [[/History/]]

Latest revision as of 04:40, 29 July 2016

This page describes the goals for Plasma Media Center (PMC), explains the design choices being made and details the outstanding tasks remaining.

Goal

To have a media center experience that makes it very easy for people to enjoy their multimedia on a device.

Release Info

Plasma Media Center 1.0.0 release

Plasma Media Center first stable release has been made recently on 20th March 2013.

Release and Feature Plan

Plasma Media Center 1.4

https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center/Release_1.4

Plasma Media Center 1.3

http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center/Release_1.3

Plasma Media Center 1.2

http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center/Release_1.2

Plasma Media Center 1.1

http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center/Release_1.1

Form Factors

The following devices (or rather, form factor) are targeted-

  • Desktop computer
  • Laptop, netbook - similar convertible devices (touch support is good to have)
  • Big TV screen connected to a computing device (such as desktop computer, raspberry pi etc)

Use Cases

Viewing Media On The Go With a Laptop

Joe is on a train / airplane travelling between two cities. The trip is long enough to watch the latest episode of his favourite T.V. show which he downloaded the night before from his PVR at home. Joe pops open his laptop, clicks on the Desktop Toolbox and selects "Media Center". PMC loads and he selects "Video", which presents a list of videos on his internal hard drive.

Viewing Media At Home, Laptop -> T.V.

Jane is at home and wants to show her dinner guests pictures from the recent weekend trip she went on. Jane plugs her laptop into the living room television, opens the application launcher (Kickoff, Lancelot) and selects "Media Center". PMC starts up and she selects "Photos" which shows various sets of photo albums. After going through the "Weekend Ski Trip" photos, she goes back and selects Videos -> Youtube and loads a Youtube playlist of top 40 music videos to play in the background while they visit.

A PVR Style Experience

Jaqueline sits down on the couch with her husband Jack and they turn on the television and their Plasma Media Center set top box. They grab the remote control and check the videos that they had recorded / downloaded but haven't watched yet. They select an episode of House and another of Fawlty Towers and press "Play".

Media Center for Plasma Active

PMC now works well with Plama Active. Small video showing PMC running on ExoPC at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8yV2NKiADM .

Design

Architecture

On a very high level, PMC is composed of QML components for different parts of the MediaCenter.

Media Elements

  • Media Welcome

It is a QML componnet which hosts the welcome screen which is presented to the user when PMC starts up.

  • Media Browser

It is a QML component which allows user to browse through the media from a backend and to select the desired media to play or view.

  • Media Player

It is a QML component that uses Phonon QML to play Audio/Video and show Images.

  • Media Controller

It is QML component that allows user to control currently playing media status like play/pause, seek, volume.

  • RuntimeData

It is a QML component which handles various media information that is needed when PMC is running.

  • Playlist

It is a QML component which contains list of media (Music and Videos) files added by user. User can add or remove media anytime from it.

  • ImageViewer

It is a QML component which is responsible to display picture in PMC. It contains pictureStrip component too, which display all available pictures of a directory in the form of strip and provides flexibility to view next, previous and any random selected picture from strip.

Browsing Backends

Another very important component of PMC, browsing backends support PMC to have different sources for media to be used. Backends are plguins so one can, for example, write a plugin to show all images from a image sharing website

  • Local files

This backend collection allows the user to browse her local filesystem for media. It exposes three backends-

    • Local pictures
    • Local music
    • Local videos
  • Metadata

This backend collection uses Plasma Active's metadata model to fetch media from Nepomuk. This should allow us to create groupings based on media tags (such as artist, album etc). Similar to local, this contains three backends-

    • Metadata pictures
    • Metadata music
    • Metadata videos
  • Online Services

This backend collection fetches media from Internet. Currently available backends are-

    • Flickr : This backend fetches images related to the given search string from flickr.
    • Picasa : This backend needs user to enter his/her Google login credential to browse through Albums and Pictures
    • Youtube : This backend allows user to view videos from youtube. User can search using searcbox and can play video of his own choice in PMC

Libs

It contains core MediaCenter classes to help in functionality.

Shells

This has the actual PMC shell which loads all the components and specifies the positioning of different components within shell. It also provides interconnection between various components.

Mockups

Here are three early Mockups by Nuno Pinheiro (with permission). The top/bottom panel idea has been taken from here (higher resolutions of these on svn)

Albums

These are from the very early ideas, for current screenshots, see the Status Reports section at the bottom of this page

Navigation within PMC

  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
  • Touch
  • Remote control

TODO

Accessibility

Make sure that the following input methods work-

  • Keyboard ( works almost fine now)
  • Touch Gestures (pinch, swipe etc)
  • TV Remote (wiimote etc)

Visualizations for music

Rss Podcast Integration

Getting started

If you are new to Plasma Media Center and want to start doing development in it, then take a look at http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center/getting_started_with_PMC

Current contributors

Akshay Ratan - akshay_r on freenode

"'Bhushan Shah'" - bshah on freenode

Marco Martin - notmart on freenode

Shantanu Tushar - Shaan7 on freenode

Sinny Kumari - ksinny on freenode

Sujith H - sujith_h on freenode

Past contributors

Christophe Olinger - binarylooks on freenode, olingerc on gitorious.org

Sebastian - sebas on freenode

Alessandro - alediaferia on freenode

Christopher Blauvelt - cblauvelt on freenode

Lukas Appelhans - boom1992 on freenode

Onur-Hayri Bakici

Fabian Riethmayer - fabian on freenode

... add your name if you have contributed and its missing

Plasma Media Center IRC Channel on Freenode

  • #plasma on irc.freenode.net

Browsing and obtaining the source code

You can browse the source on https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=plasma-mediacenter.git, or, if you wish to download the source, simply clone git://anongit.kde.org/plasma-mediacenter.git using git.

Meetings / BoFs

Status Reports

2012 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

2011 [7] [8] [9] [10]

2010 [11] [12] [13]

2009 [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

Find the older design and discussions here History

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