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Integration of Web media lookup in the GNOME Shell with Grilo

Real Name of Submitter: 
Philippe Normand
Company or Project Affiliation: 
Igalia
Short Bio: 

Philippe is passionate about computers, free software and multimedia, he holds a master degree in computer science. At Igalia he works on the HTML5 multimedia support of WebKit, based on GStreamer and sometimes also contributes patches to GStreamer itself.

Talk Abstract: 

Grilo is a framework focused on making media discovery and browsing easy for application developers. It supports a wide number of backends for:

  • YouTube
  • Jamendo
  • Flickr
  • Vimeo
  • Apple trailers

The GNOME Shell features a search UI in its overview mode. This talk will demonstrate a GNOME Shell extension able to hook in the Shell to allow the user to search media on various websites without even using a web browser. This approach is in the spirit of integrating the Web in the core of the desktop.

Intended audience for this talk would be end-users and developers interested in the GNOME Shell although the talk will likely be limited to a demo.