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by Ian Monroe on Thursday 16/Aug/2007, @07:31

I don't quite understand it either. It makes sense that they aren't using Amarok, since its not a "10 foot interface." But I don't quite get where Plasma fits into all this, perhaps its the future direction of development for LinuxMCE.

I watched a lot of the LinuxMCE video, its simply amazing.

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Re: future development?
by kwilliam on Thursday 16/Aug/2007, @08:47

Plasma is not just the desktop. It's a set of libraries for drawing and animating cool things. (For instance, Amarok 2 uses Plasma to render it's Context Browser.) Perhaps they are thinking of rewriting LinuxMCE's user interface to take advantage of the Plasma libraries, so they don't have to reinvent the wheel. That might make the interface more memory efficient, better looking, and easier to customize the look. (I'm just making an educated guess here; I'm not a developer so I don't really know what LinuxMCE/KDE4 integration would be like.)

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Re: future development?
by Troy Unrau on Thursday 16/Aug/2007, @09:02

You're preaching to the choir here. Ian is an amarok devel :)

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Re: future development?
by Bernhard Rode on Thursday 16/Aug/2007, @08:49

I hope that the Linux MCE Guys integrate in the Technlogies which build our pillars such as Plasma, Decibel, Phonon....

If we can get all their functionalities into the Desktop... that would be unbelievabel cool.

I think a lightweight GUI to connect to a server would be great a great step.

Then announcing/sharing local pictures/movies/... to/with a central server via upnp protocol or just zeroconf would make it even better.

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Re: future development?
by Aaron J. Seigo on Thursday 16/Aug/2007, @09:00

> I don't quite get where Plasma fits into all this

it's the "point of desktop integration" and i happen to be the point of contact, so ... yeah. =) it's not so much that there will be a heart transplant in linuxMCE where plasma is put into the core, but that the two projects will integrate around the desktop. personally, i hope to have plasmoids available in media center interface (that's why there is a "media center" form factor) and that some of the current linuxMCE components will draw in the future from kde technologies (e.g. solid or phonon, certainly more qt4)

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