I like it, I think it's a good plan. You should check with bfiller and his
team, as from my memory they started on a media player widget already.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Michał Sawicz <michal.saw...@canonical.com>
wrote:
> Output from a chat with tvoss today:
>
> We foresee two parallel approaches: a media player widget and a player
> using trusted sessions.
>
> 1)
> If your app has video playback caps + apparmor profile, you should just be
> able to go:
>
> VideoPlayer { // name TBD, component to be ~extracted from the current
> media player app into the SDK
> source: "url://to/video"
> }
>
> That's it. It should be an item as any other in your QML scene, and have
> a button to put it fullscreen. Hardware decoding included.
>
> 2)
> If you don't want to embed the player in your app, dispatching a URL to it
> should result in the video player opening as a trusted session for your
> app, covering it whole.
>
> That might not necessarily be the behaviour we want for windowed mode,
> where we might want an actual player app, but that we'll have to
> determine when we get there.
>
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> Title:
> Media Player should not be visible in the app scope and launcher
>
> Status in the base for Ubuntu mobile products:
> In Progress
> Status in Ubuntu UX bugs:
> Fix Committed
> Status in mediaplayer-app package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in url-dispatcher package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in mediaplayer-app package in Ubuntu RTM:
> In Progress
> Status in url-dispatcher package in Ubuntu RTM:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> The mediaplayer is an 'auxiliary app' in the current design approach.
> That means that its purpouse it playback media launched by other apps
> (e.g Messaging) or scopes (e.g. Videos). It should not be launched
> from the App scopes.
>
> However, the 'Update' section System Settings should still display it
> when an update to mediaplayer is available.
>
> Current behaviour
> - Mediaplayer app displayed in App Scope, Launcher and Settings
>
> Desired behaviour
> - Mediaplayer app not displayed in App Scope or Launcher
> - Mediaplayer displayed in Settings > Update
>
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