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Current kde multimedia apps inherit roughly the structure of kde3 predecessors. There are some useless overlaps between similar apps (dragon player, kaffeine, amarok etc..). My proposal is to develop something plasmable in the sense that follows.
maybe:
if you don't have a broadband connection, but you have a tv card
you have a broadband connection, don't have a tv card
you have both, ore one of them, but can't use your pc to store multimedia files
you have both, ore one of them, but are not interested in listen music or watch tv.
In all these cases you need different sw. some of them (i.e. amarok) require a lot of time at startup.

my proposal is to create different configuration files (eventually xml) that express the elements of the library and of interface you want to load when using this program, suppressing the lots of possibilities and time consuming goodies you don't want.

example 1: i want only listen radio
>amarok -profile:radio
amarok app loads only webradio stations, dvb-t/dvb-s stations, play/pause commands. No loading of playlists, no wikipedia, no local files database.

example 2: i want listen my own music
>amarok -profile:database
amarok app loads only the music database, the playlist, eventually wikipedia. no other confusing and time consuming options

example 3: i want normal feature full amarok
>amarok - profile:all
you guess it

example 4: i want 0nly wtch tv
>kaffeine - profile:onlyTV
loads kaffeine without playlists, db, dvd menus etcc.. with minimal tv programs and EPG (like if it was me-tv).


those approaches could let you have many progs in one, and use a thin memory space each time.