Re: suggestion: unified media player control panel applet

Ross Burton wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:42 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 17:36 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:30 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>>
>>>>Well, ANYWAYS, I'd say all this goes to show that we certainly don't
>>>>have the One True Media player yet (if ever) and my original proposal
>>>>should still be considered. Any of you lot - especially the ones who
>>>>actually write media players, hi Ross and Bastien - have an opinion on
>>>>it? Or want to write it? :)
>>>
>>>I don't believe in the One True Media Player.  I challenge anyone to
>>>come up with a *good* UI which combines with internet video playing and
>>>CD ripping.
>>
>>Erm, the original proposal was not to write the One True Media Player.
>>It was to write a panel applet consolidating simple controls for all
>>current media players, instead of the current situation where they all
>>stick a non-removable notification area icon in my panel with their own
>>controls on it. The discussion kind of sprawled in a major way from that
>>point.
> 
> 
> Oh, sorry.  I don't believe in that either.  :)
> 
> Applications in Desktop should agree on a general layout for the
> notification area, but I also don't believe that the notification area
> is a good use for media player remote controls.
> 
> Ross
> 
  yes. I'm not a UI/HIG expert, but i would imagine it would be fairly 
difficult/clumsy to write an applet/control, that would distingish which 
media player is acctually doing something, and sent signals/messages to 
that individual player.  god forbid someone is playing a movie muted 
with music playing, it wouldn't know what app to control. then you have 
to think about how it would go about controling said applications. each 
media player, from my experiance, has a completly diffrent and 
individual way of receiving signals or invoking plugins. i know 
rhythmbox (and maybe totem?) can use bonobo controls (i have attached 
python to rhythmbox many a time), but what about xmms, or beep, or any 
KDE based applications like mplayer? or vlc?

no, one applet to to attempt to control all of these is not that way to 
go. it would just be far to complicated and clumsy to write and most 
likly use.

thats just my 2 cents on the disscussion i have seen rage on for a day 
or 2 now.


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