Re: New Music Browser

I suggest making this a completely separate ui like the text ui and such 
  until it's done.  This way, you can basically remove the ugliness 
you're encountering with the current ui without making people antsy 
about the player not functioning correctly at all.  Themes have been 
left behind in zinf, the musicbrowser looks like it was added after the 
theming framework and that framework was never extended to cover it, 
without covering the musicbrowser under the theming framework, the 
themes seem incomplete and the entire program looks awkward when 
actually used.  A rewritten ui could be much cleaner by just not using 
themes at all, let the person's gtk theme handle the look. That or maybe 
the new ui can have a theme framework that is more complete.

Basically the musicbrowser could be the player if you wanted to go that 
way, but i assume nobody does so why stop there with converting to an 
all C++ project.

Summer is almost over so i'll be back to working on my own rewrite of 
"zinf" when the semester starts.





David Hough wrote:
> Having a reasonable amount of time on my hands and wanting to learn c++, 
> i thought i give rewriting the musicbrowser using gtkmm a go thinking 
> the basics couldn't be that hard. I have since realised my mistake, 
> however I have come up a half finished rewrite.
> 
> So here it is, the rather large patch is at http://www- 
> users.york.ac.uk/~djh123/newbrowser.diff
> 
> there are also a couple of screenshots at http://www- 
> users.york.ac.uk/~djh123/screenshot1.png (in a new view mode) and 
> http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~djh123/screenshot2.png (in the old 2 pane 
> setup)
> 
> I havn't patched the autoconf files to check for gtkmm or anything like 
> that as i wouldn't know where to start, i just hacked the musicbrowser 
> makefile.am to get it to compile on my computer.
> 
> Comments, ideas, contributions, etc very much welcome.
> 
> Also, i just checked out CVS version, to check the patch worked on it 
> and noticed a problem with the playlist plugins meaning it wouldn't 
> complile. this fixes that, but isn't exactly an ideal solution to the 
> problem



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