Hi all, Some time ago Frank asked for some feedback about the new LiveRadio extension he created. I just got around to play with it, so here are a few random thoughts and ideas about it. I hope they'll be useful. But first, how is it different from the RadioStationFetcher extension ? It also allows you to search and browse radio stations, but you can listen to a station without adding it to the "Internet Radio". If you like it, you can then add it to your stations with one click. I think I quite like this approach. 1/ It might be nice to combine all the sources for stations (shoutcast, xiph and live365) into one screen, without necessarily separating between each origin. If I'm looking for a "ambient-electro-metal" station, I don't want to do 3 searches. Thus, the LiveRadio source wouldn't have any child sources, and its contents would be similar to what is now currently in each child. Being able to disable a station source, and having settings for each (username, etc.) is still useful. 2/ I think it would be nice to use Mono.Addins to have pluggable station sources, instead of doing that "by hand". An extension can itself be extended. For example, look at what is done in the Banshee source with the Banshee.Dap extension being extended by each specific Dap extension (Ipod, MassStorage and Mtp) 3/ There are configuration option for the HTTP proxy. Wouldn't it be better to use the system settings for that ? I think those are used automatically, but I'm not sure. 4/ The preferences dialogs have Cancel/Apply/Save buttons. Preferences should be applied immediately, if possible. The dialogs then only needs a Close button. 5/ The refresh button should have a different icon. The Gtk.Stock.Refresh icon might probably fit better. Well, I hope I've managed to make myself clear. Of course, you can all now doubt my credentials for making this kind of suggestions, after having a look at the AlarmClock extension... ;) -- Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com> > http://bl-log.blogspot.com <
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