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42976

Integrate with Akonadi

by gerlos » Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:13 am • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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I'd like to have names from address book automatically avaible as tags in nepomuk, so we could associate files to people.
This way, I could associate some files I'm working with the name of friends or colleagues, and easily group and send them these files.

It could be useful also with photos: we could tag some photo with the name of a friend in our address book, and see/access all these photos in his/her entry in the address book.

regards
gerlos

Tags: nepomuk

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80757

High Quality Video Management Application.

by xxtjaxx » Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:17 am • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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By now, _everybody_ heard about our enterprise Multimedia applications Amarok(Music) and Digikam(Images). But as this:
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=77036
forum thread and the comments on this blog-post:
http://andreasdevblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/kmix-without-alsa-no-way/ suggest, we still lack a good home movie database management software.
In both cases 2 options were suggested.

1. beef up Dragonplayer
Dragonplayer calls itself a sister project of Amarok but is by now more like a fast and simple movie watching tool. Nothing interesting for somebody with a database of say 100-200 movies, right? Still easy and handy to use.
So, It would be possible to pickup what Dragonplayer already has and enhance it with some of the goodnes we also applied to Amarok.

2. Use Kaffeine
Allright, kaffeine has some nice features, allright. It can view DHB-T-TV(?) play discs by chapter and a playlist. Oh yeah a playlist feature sure thats easy and perfectly allright when you want to watch several videos after each other as a background entertainment during work hours. But it still doesn't have the rating, the web-db connection , the management and all that goodnes you have when using amarok.

So now maybe trying match it to something like amarok and digikam really doesn't work so well. But it is a first trial and we can only get better from here .
Another proposal would be to drop one of the aforementioned Movieplayers and keep one for the singletime watching crowd and one for the experts/fans of moving pictures.

Tags: amarok, kaffeine, digikam, dragonplayer

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83180

Compiz Plugin "Grid" for KWin

by kbblak » Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:15 pm • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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In Compiz, I have a very nice plugin, called "grid".

With this plugin, it's possible to resize windows in a very easy way.

Modes like fullscreen or half of the screen are available.

http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/Plugins/Grid

It makes work much faster, I think and i miss it in kwin

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83091

Semantic modular Desktop

by Mar91 » Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:32 pm • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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I got an email from minnie@gmail.com and she sent me a file (attached to mail).

I think it would be easy to add a plugin system to nepomuk, i mean: add kmail the possibility to tell nepomuk: "hey, minnie sent me a messagge today at 12.00 pm with this attachment, which has been saved in /home/User/Documents/me and my family.jpg".
Nepomuk will store those information and the user will be able to search for the photo or for the mail. So, for every search you will do about this mail, you'll get all information linked to it ( attachment, day you got it, text..etc )

This plugin system can also be extendend to other application, like Amarok,which can tell nepomuk: "this song is of $artist and was released in $year..etc" and searching for $year will gave you the song of $artist.

I think that this desing ( Application which give nepomuk some information ), is also extensible by changing the App's plugin without having o modify Nepomuk.

Tags: nepomuk

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38873

Gecko/Webkit KDE browser

by f33l » Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:53 pm • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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It's great to have Konqi (based on the KHTML engine), but I believe that most KDE users are still using Firefox.

I therefore propose to provide a KDE browser based on the Gecko or Webkit engine, that exploits the inertia that the Mozilla Foundation or corporations like Google, Nokia and Apple put behind these projects, rather than using too many resources on KHTML.

I would love to see a QT-based Firefox, that doesn't annoy me with the GNOME file dialog every day. If mozilla doesn't bother releasing a QT version, maybe the KDE team can.

Tags: web browser, webkit, kparts

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82925

Media Information Management (MIM) and database

by Infi777 » Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:24 am • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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I like the direction Akonadi is taking with PIM (Personal Information Management) and creating a usefull backend architecture other PIM related software can rely on.
This coupled with Amarok's successful project in audio information management, I think a Project needs to be enjoined by each of the KDE media projects (Amarok, Kaffeine, etc) to define and implement a backend architecture similar to Akonadi (in idea, not necessarily code).
A MIM (Media Information Management) backend to provide the service of a database and change events to manage and compile the metadata associated with one's media (like the usuall tags, ratings, URL, playcount, etc...). This will service and maintain all the associated data a user (or multiple users =) wants to store. This backend will not be a playback service. The frontend applications, like Amarok for audio, and Kaffeine for video, would be responsible for their preferred media types (and depending on the users choice of playback engine, etc).
A MIM would further allow a separation via network, where one could have the metadata store on a server and multiple clients could interact with it.

Tags: amarok, kaffeine, audio, video, media management, database

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46848

Jabber video support

by benderamp » Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:02 pm • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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Hello,

I have webcam working in kopete on my notebook, but I can't use it. I have found out that kopete supports video conferences only for MSN and Yahoo protocols. I do not use them - I use only ICQ and google talk.

Google talk does support video chat, and as I could see some posts in the inet, it does not use some proprietary or closed codecs, so it must be possible to implement it. It would be wonderful if kopete did support google video chat.

Also I do not know, if video chatting it a part of jabber protocol, or it stands separately, but I think it would be great if we could share video with any jabber user (not only gtalk) in kopete.

Tags: kopete, jabber, video

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38984

upnp server

by dorism » Sat Mar 21, 2009 11:10 am • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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Would love if KDE had the inbuilt capability to be a upnp media server so I could stream music and video to all my media devices. Maybe have a plasmoid to do this?

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82874

Tagging system-wide is a real paradigm-change

by incredion » Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:23 pm • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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Think it through. Tagging is a whole second layer to the old folder-pardigm.

How you work today: you open openoffice-text, write a text, save the file -> a requester opens to select to folder to save the file to, give the file a name and you save it.

And think of it: by doing this, you in reality attach several tags to the file: being the names of the subfolders it resides in: e.g. documents/computer/programming/kde/plasma and the filename itself. You do this by clicking through the folder-tree, that presents subkategories, resp. cathegorical folder names to you.

If you would *really* use the full power of tagging, you can forget folders!

You would do as described, however, instead of opening a requester for placing the file in a subfolder of folders, you would be asked to give some tags to the file. I imagine a requester containing a tag cloud of used tags that change color when clicked and a text field to enter new tags. You do not need a filename either, because full-text indexing, tags and especially journaling ('the letter I wrote on sunday') should be much faster to find you the file than any folder/filename-technology.

So we see: tagging needs a complete change in working with files. Otherwise it is an additional task nobody understands: if I have to save a file (a task a lot of people do not understand and find annoying) and now they should give the file a lot of tags (even more annoying).

We need to do the whole step and that begins with changing file storage paradigm and with the way applications save files and ask us for filenames (the file requester is history). If we want tagging be effective and strong, we need to change really a lot!

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82829

Re-organize the system settings menu

by tom0485 » Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:14 am • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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The system settings menu could use some restructuring. You can see a first draft of how it could look. The idea behind it is that it should be oriented at the needs of the users and their problems, not at the programs that run under the surface.
Examples:
why is "Regional & Language" personal, "Date&Time" not?
why is the configuration of the printer "General", the configuration of a digital camera "Advanced"?
why is it "General" to choose which audio backend you want to use but not which energy settings you prefer?

In this example, "Sharing" should also include the basic samba settings, "Autostart" should also include the "Device Actions" and the "Login Manager" somehow belongs together with the "Session Manager"
"Font Installer" should become obsolete with one of the next versions of KPakageKit

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