Plasma/Plasma Media Center/Release 1.1

Release Schedule

• 01 April - Start of development for PMC 1.1
• 15 June - Feature freeze, no more features to master
• 01 July 2013 01 August 2013 - PMC 1.1 Beta [Source tarball and Beta blog]
• 15 July 2013 11 August 2013 - PMC 1.1 RC [ Source tarball and RC blog]
• 01 Aug 2013 20 August 2013 - PMC 1.1 release [Source tarball and KDE dot article]

Planned features

• Refactored common components for media browsers
• Keyboard navigation for All Music mode [done]
• Youtube backend for watching videos [done]
• Video/Audio podcasts

Achieved features and improvements

Features

• Youtube backend for watching online videos
• Media file association with Plasma Media Center
• Plasma Media Center command line option to open audio and video file in it

 $ plasma-mediacenter [--fullscreen] <audio/video file url>

• Option to go back to currently playing media on clicking empty area in home-screen

Improvements

• Dimming image/video when it is not viewed directly
• Shuffle playlist items instead of playing random item
• Reordering playlist item by holding and dragging to new position
• Deleting playlist item on Holding and dragging item outside playlist
• Dedicated option in home-screen to exit Plasma Media Center