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Plasma Media Center 1.2 Released In Time For ChristmasThe KDE community has a Christmas gift for you! We are happy to announce the release of KDE's Plasma Media Center 1.2—your first stop for media and entertainment created by the Elves at KDE. Plasma Media Center is designed to provide an easy and comfortable way to watch your videos, browse your photo collection and listen to your music, all in one place. This release brings many refinements and a host of new features, making consuming media even easier and more fun. New Features and ImprovementsWorking with feedback from users since the previous release, the team has implemented many cool new features and a variety of improvements and bug fixes. Improved Music Mode Artist and Album Cover Retrieval Folder Previews for Picture Browsing Keyboard bindings for media control Multiple Playlist Support Shiny new icons for controller Please askIf you requested a feature that is not listed above, feel free to contact us! The team might be working on it already, or might not know about it if there was not a feature request on bugzilla (see "Bugs and Feature Requests" below). You can also leave comments and requests on this article. Videos and Screenshots Of What's NewBelow is a video of what's new in this release. You can also click through to Youtube directly. There are more screen shots of Plasma Media Center 1.2. InstallationYou can get the source here. Please follow these instructions to install Plasma Media Center on your machine. For binary packages, check to see if your distro has them. If you are a packager (or know someone who is), the team can help with any questions regarding packaging. Currently, ArchLinux (AUR), Fedora, OpenSuse and Ubuntu have packages for Plasma Media Center. Learn More and get involvedTo know more about Plasma Media Center, check out the wiki. If you want to contribute, this page will get you started. Bugs & Feature Requests Thanks to our Google Code-In students:
Coming UpThe team is already hard at work on the next release of Plasma Media Center! Some things to expect in the next release:
For detailed release and feature plan of PMC 1.3.0, please take a look at this wiki page. Thanks to all the developers, testers and people for giving useful feedback on improving Plasma Media Center. The team hopes you are as excited as they are and will enjoy this release! |
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Comments
Congratulations!
Well done guys, excellent work! Looks great.
looks amazing!!!
looks amazing!!!
media server libraries?
Looks very nice.
Can PMC access media server libraries such as plex or xbmc?
Hopefully it will improve
Very basic at the moment but hopefully it will improve with more functionality and features.