On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Vishesh Handa <m...@vhanda.in> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <shaan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Vishesh Handa <m...@vhanda.in> wrote: >> >>> Hey Shaantanu >>> >>> Jungle is more of a personal itch that we (Alex Fiestas and I) wanted to >>> scratch. It's currently in its very very early phases, and is not ready for >>> consumption by anyone. Also, the code is not up to my quality standards. >>> >> >> Yep, that is why I wanted this discussed at the early stages. If we >> really end up having a separate app for watching movies, it quite kills all >> of our motivation of having a unified media experience on KDE. >> > > I'm not sure I understand why multiple video players cannot exist, but > sure. > Ah they can very well exist (even though PMC isn't really just a video player), as you have mentioned in a comment on the blog post. However, as I said, the whole point of a media center is lost if the user has to switch to another application to watch movies. > > >> >> >>> You're more than welcome to utilize any code from Jungle and help create >>> it into a library that we can share. We would still like to experiment with >>> some different UIs and not tie ourselves down to PMC. >>> >> >> Yep, I plan to expose a PMC backend from Jungle over this weekend, lets >> see how it goes. >> > > Sure, just be warned that the internals of jungle might change a LOT. The > project is still very very young. > No problemo, I'll just be playing around to spike how much effort that involves. Plus, it as long as Jungle uses standard Qt models, the internals don't really matter. > -- > Vishesh Handa > > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to > unsubscribe << > > -- Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com
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