Re: GSOC 2012 proposal & viability

[Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau gmail com>]

Hey Pratesh,

Thanks for your proposal. For GNOME 3, we are using a design-driven
approach to UI changes. This means that we rely on specialized UI
designers to design how our UIs should work, and they generally frown
upon big UI changes that are made without getting feedback from them.
See https://live.gnome.org/Design for more details about the UI design
team.
With regards to your proposal, I think they favour a dedicated app to
achieve what you describe, see
https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Videos
In all cases, you'll need to get the design team to approve of the
changes you are proposing, so I'd recommend trying to get in touch
with them.

Hope that helps,

Christophe

Le 24 mars 2012 17:56, Prashanth Ravi <dare take gmail com> a écrit :
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> I am Comp Sc Bachelor's student from India. For my final year project I am
> developing a media player using Win32 API,libavcodec etc. One of the
> features of the above mentioned player was to integrate into the file
> explorer and make it easier for users to select the files that they want to
> play.
>
> I am submitting a brief idea of this feature so that any of the users in the
> mailing list could tell me whether it's useful and/or viable on GNOME.
>
> Problem:
> X has a large video collection contained within different levels of sub
> directories.Unlike audio files(mp3/ogg etc.) most video files do not have
> tags associated with them.
> Of course you can add tags or other metadata, but unlike the audio file,
> videos rarely have an artist/album or title. X wants to play select files.
>
> Solutions:
> 1.Include a screenshot of the file within the file manager
> 2.Include continuous screenshots of the file in the file manager
> 3.Include a quick play feature, ie the user can play the file in another
> pane.
>
> for #1,#2 & #3,will the user have to drag and drop each file one by one to
> the player? What if each video is in a different directory?
>
> Links to UI mock up,
> http://flic.kr/p/bFyCwK
> http://flic.kr/p/bsDKVd
>
> Proposal:
> 1.For directories containing video files, the file explorer provides a
> playlist/listbox to add them.
> 2.User can play file, if he likes it, he adds it to the playlist.
> 3.The playlist is persistent across directories.
> 4.After finalizing, he can click a button and the default video player
> starts with the playlist.
>
> Notes:
> I have a collection of music videos and "drag and drop" was the only
> solution for me , this feature was inspired by picasa viewer.
> Another solution would be to have a collection in as a video player
> feature(eg video collection).But that makes it dependent on the application
> and most people nowadays have videos, quite a lot on their hard disk, so I
> think it affects a large userbase.
> And GNOME is kinda new to me(did some coding with GTk+ for simple apps ), so
> could someone point me in the right direction?
>
>
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