MusicBrowserMM Status

Hi,

I've been doing some work on the new browser, and I've finally got to the 
stage where no more structual changes need to be made, I hope anyway. So 
as the code in the cvs was serverly out of date and the browser code is 
almost as fully functional as the original browser, I've updated the cvs 
copy to the most recent in my arch tree.

If anyone does want to try it out, for the experimental code you will need 
libglademm as well as everything else that is already required (this may 
or may not be packaged with gtkmm depending on distribution). You will 
also need to copy zinf/ui/musicbrowsermm/res/glade/zinf.glade into ~/.zinf

For lots of details on whats changed you can look through the log messages 
in my arch tree http://www-student.cs.york.ac.uk/~djh123/zinf/
But probably easiest just to try it out

Unfortunately there is still plenty of stuff that needs to be done, 
including (in some sort of rough priority on my part in case anyone feels 
like taking any of it on :) )
* Respond to messages asking for dialogs e.g. CMD_AddFiles, 
INFO_FileNotFound
* Edit Info/Search For Music/Intro Wizard dialogs
* Make playback controls toolbar look better and more functional
* CD Support
* Dialog to allow editing of custom layouts
* Drag & Drop support
* Keyboard support e.g. making delete key remove items in playlist, etc..

Some extra features (as compared to original musicbrowser)
* Can use as primary UI
* Customisable toolbar

And lots of bug fixing as well.

The musicdb backend to all this still needs plenty of work as well, 
obviously, but I'm attempting to get the browser at least up to the 
original musicbrowser functionality before helping out with that code.

Any comments would be appreciated including bug reports, so please do feel 
free to try it out.

David
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