Re: New Music Browser

Personally I like having a themed main UI and and seperate unthemed 
playlist editor. It basically means that when your not editing the playlist 
you have a very nice looking music player that provides something different 
from the crap looking gtk based players. When you are editing the playlist, 
it means that you have a very clean interface that is in no danger of being 
made unusable by whatever theme you have for the main player (a problem I 
have had with winamp/xmms that theme everything).

Although I do agree that when editing the playlist you could basically get 
rid of the main themed ui and make things a lot simpler, but I don't think 
you want to do this all the time. Perhaps the musicbrowser could have a bar 
with playback controls and information for when you are editing the 
playlist, or something, but I still reckon a themed interface should be the 
main UI.

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:56:46 -0400, Ed Sweetman <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> 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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