Thread: [idea] gesture-based music player
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2010-04-11 , 09:36
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Originally Posted by hopbeat View Post
@pycage, I like the idea. Maybe there are already some standard events (headphoned uses this to pause playback?), if not it would be nice to agree upon some set. Also for the future MeeGo framework, so all the media players could be controlled with single DBus API.
Unfortunately headphoned talks to each supported application through the application's own D-Bus interface. But I think it's really about time to think about a common set of D-Bus events.

Originally Posted by hopbeat View Post
I will write a simple mockup in my free time, to see if this can really work.
Anyone knows any gesture recognition algorithm I could use here?
I'm not much into gesture recognition, but a simple approach would be dividing the screen into sectors. A simple state machine could keep track of the gestures and raise an event in case of recognition.
I think with some nice graphics we could quickly build up such an app with Qt Creator.
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