Plasma/Plasma Media Center/Akademy2012

Improvements discussed at PMC BoF at Akademy 2012

• Have thumbnails for home screen items, remove recently played list from homescreen
• Add spacing between progress and volume sliders
• No browsing backends on plasma active
• Unhide the browser when playlist reaches the end
• Show a toggleable current/remaining time next to the sliders
• Add Places items to browsing backends
• Busy loading indicators whereever required
• Video view is too crowded, show lesser videos on the screen. Also, give an option for list of videos rather than a grid to show full title
• Handle keyboard/remote navigation as items are on screen. For example, pressing down button while at the bottom most media in the grid should switch to the Search panel
• The new border shown in the Media Browser is ugly, remove it
• Don't use bold or italic on text
• Remove margins from where not needed/they dont look good
• Move the back button to the controller
• Let the user drag-n-drop to the playlist
• Make the browser titles be vertically aligned with each other so they look consistent
• Elide text in the middle rather than the ends
• In Picture Strip, try to focus on the middle item
• Instead of typing out tags, its easier to select from a list
• Make item highlight bigger than the item
• Resume video from where the user left off
• Auto hide cursor while video plays
• Categorize the welcome screen (as the mockup on the drawing board)