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KDE Releases Plasma Media Center 1.0

Posted by Unknown on from the ooo-shiny dept.

jrepin writes "KDE is proud to announce the first release (1.0.0) of Plasma Media Center. Built on Plasma and KDE technologies. Designed to offer a rich experience to media enthusiasts. KDE's Plasma Media Center (PMC) is aimed towards a unified media experience on PCs, Tablets, Netbooks, TVs and other devices. Plasma Media Center can be used to view images, play music or watch videos. Media files can be on the local filesystem or accessed with KDE's Desktop Search." The screenshots look OK. You have to build it yourself to try it (looks easy on Ubuntu but not Debian unstable because of a few missing dev packages).

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  1. Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just what I was looking for and it looks great on videos. Plasma technology really seams to be powerful and flexible. Why doesn't Ubuntu just use Plasma as base for their desktop. Anyways great job KDE!

    1. Re:Awesome by burdickjp · · Score: 4, Informative

      I concur about Ubuntu getting behind KDE. It would be very cool for them to build their Unity components as plasmoids. There are already plasmoids to mimic the Unity desktop. they're already looking at going QT and QML for their convergent desktop. It makes sense, it really does.

    2. Re:Awesome by Enderandrew · · Score: 4, Interesting

      They had Unity built on Qt, but I think it was just the 2D with no compositing fall-back mode. With Plasma and Qt, it should be trivial to make a Unity desktop shell with QML.

      Their new phone stack uses uses Qt and QML.

      I don't understand half using Gnome and using Qt at this point.

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  2. The 10ft interface... by jedidiah · · Score: 2

    How's the 10ft interface with LIRC and such?

    A browser (or even file mangler) with an IR remote optimized interface could be even by itself a nice addition to may HTPC setups.

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  3. Re:Gnome is now irrelevant. by Nerdfest · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can actually kind of have the 'best' of both, using KDE to emulate the appearance and functionality of Gnome for the most part, but without its limits. I'm a recent KDE convert and am enjoying it quite a bit. I'm a little disappointed that so much atention in the desktop community is focused on Gnome and Unity these days.