PhotoFlow, which I introduced less than 48 hours ago, can also be realized as a plasmoid. It is the top left applet in the screenshot above. I have never written a plasma applet in my life before, so it took me quite a while to figure out how the mechanism works. And frankly, I am still not sure whether such a kind of widget can be really useful at all.
I guess I will wait until KDE 4.1 before I place this stuff in KDE's playground. By that time, Plasma itself should already stabilize. Probably it is even better to integrate it with the Picture of the Day data engine. Or even with the slideshow plasmoid. Or perhaps do you have any other idea?
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It might be out of the scope of"PhotoFlow", but I would love to see this implemented in Dolphin and/or Digikam!
I have a very good idea. Put it in playground now! It looks awesome.
I think it does well as a separate plasmoid. It would be neat if with plasmoids which uses PhotoFlow as a base - for example, a widget that shows the cover artwork of the albums in your current playlist (in for example Amarok).
please put it in playground! I was also thinking about putting some albums in there and playing them with amarok on click.
+1000 for digikam and dolphin integration.
Since Amarok supports (in fact depends on) plasmoids, wouldn't that be the perfect application for this?
*cough* application launcher *cough*
it's make a kickass menu imho. nice plugin btw
I'd love to have the slideshow plasmoid doing the transitions with your widget but it need to be extended :
when the picture will change, it zoom out until it fit in a thumbnail of the cover flow, then the cover flow switch to the next picture and zoom in to have the picture in full size
anyway, your widget is "only" eye-candy but it's so sweet :)
I agree, put it in playground. I'd really like to make a "FlickrFlow" out of this, showing my friend's posted pictures on Flickr as they are posted ;)
Great work.
Please! Please! Please! put it in playground!!! This is the kind of stuff that makes difference.. there are so many ways to use it (Dolphin, amarok, digikam, gwenview and so many other applications could use something like this)... You don't really have to wait until KDE 4.1 ...
Keep up the excellent work!
I've been thinking that a PhotoFlow type interface would be great for browsing through eBooks if they ever get wide spread use.
Chad
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It is very nice, but I am just wondering where can I get the cover art?
Do I need to make it myself?
It will be a lot of work for all the media files!
" And frankly, I am still not sure whether such a kind of widget can be really useful at all."
Put it in Playground, and see what uses other people come up with for it :)
Useful? What's that got to do with it? I want my eyecandy, dammit! :-P
Thanks for the all responses.
To avoid confusion, what I want to put in playground is the plasmoid. The PhotoFlow code does exist already, if you are careful you find the link to its Google Code project.
To cater for different use-cases of this widget (be it for Amarok, as app launcher, Flickr integration, etc), I guess it will be best to wait for Plasma in KDE 4.1 so that we get Widget-on-Canvas, which makes mylife easier w.r.t to technical implementation of this plasmoid.
Looks great! I'm sure it'll get used for something reasonable.
However, it feels a bit weird to me that the bottom of the plasmoid requires more space than the top. I recognize that this is because of the reflections, but those should only be extra bling and should not influence how this thing would be displayed if reflections didn't exist.
So... could you please center the covers vertically, and just cut off the remaining bottom parts of the reflection? Thanks!
@Jakob Petsovits: I tried to follow Apple's Cover Flow and hence the proportions. But shouldn't be too difficult to change it or make it adjustable.
kde 4.1 beta is out, will we see picture folw integrated into dolphin and amarok??
Beautiful! I can't wait to see it on my system!
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