Plasma/Plasma Media Center/Release 2.0

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