[vlc-devel] GSoC 2008 OS X interface

[Felix Paul Kühne]

Am 08.10.2008 um 15:39 schrieb Derk-Jan Hartman:

> I've been totally out of touch with this work of Eric, except seeing
> some screenshots and movies.
>
> I like what I have seen, but if we want to get this into 1.0.0 it's
> time to do some serious work.
> Now that we have multiple OSX devs reasonably available at the same
> time, we should see what we can do here and make sure it gets rolling.
>
> So what are the current blocking issues in Eric's work?
> How do we want to start integrating his and the base ?

We have to do manual patches, as he didn't provide any. The most time  
consuming part is probably editing the MainMenu.nib in master  
according to his work, as we cannot merge the files and since we did  
quite a few changes to the master nib since his branch was created.  
Porting the code should be quite easy.
Once the merge is complete, we need to implement a few missing buttons  
(the fullscreen button on the panel doesn't work for instance) and fix  
some usability and design issues. The list on the left hand side got  
some re-draw issues, etc.

Regrettably, a full-time university schedule plus 15 hours of work at  
my employer start for me next Monday, so I won't have much time to  
work on VLC. For now, I don't really think that I could contribute  
much time or even code until the xmas holidays, so better plan the  
work without me. However, I will jump in from time to time. You'll  
see ;-)

Ah, another few words on Eric's work: he also did a VLC-based  
QuickLook plugin which converts the first 30 sec of a given clip to a  
QuickTime-compatible format, which is finally shown by the provided QT- 
QuickLook-plugin. This plugin does only behave like this if Perian  
isn't installed, which does a much better job than we could ever do  
through a 3rd party QuickLook-plugin (restrictions of the platform  
apply here). We should consider to back-port it, too, which will be  
really easy as the code is independent from the VLC code base  
(obviously except for framework usage).

Best regards,

Felix