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Plasma/Plasma Media Center/Release 2.0

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Release Schedule

  • 21st June, 2014 - Start of development for PMC 2.0
  • 12th Nov, 2014 - Feature freeze
  • 2nd Dec, 2014 - PMC 2.0 Beta
  • 20th Dec, 2014 - PMC 2.0 Release

Planned features

  • PMC ported to Qt5/KF5
  • DVB-T support
  • MPRIS and Simon voice recognition support
  • Events and trips according to date ranges

Frameworks version

This section describes the current problems and status of KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 port.

  • All browsing backends working except events backend (not ported)
  • Using QtMultimedia for playback, looking forward to use phonon qml bindings once available
  • There are three main parts of system
*# Library
*# QML media components
*# shell package
  • plasma-mediacenter application loads shell package.
  • Nepomuk is no longer available in KDE Frameworks 5, nepomuk mediasource dropped
  • Baloo is used to fetch data
  • Plans to rewrite and rethink workflow, suggestions welcome
  • Available in frameworks branch of kde:plasma-mediacenter git repo.
  • Report bugs on KDE bugzilla under frameworks version https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=plasma-mediacenter
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