Re: Idea for CD players.

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Martin Baulig (martin home-of-linux org) wrote at 14:10 on 18/11/00:
> Peter Teichman <peter helixcode com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 01:42:08PM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > > 
> > > An idea I had the other day:
> > > 
> > > 	* Bonobo component that abstracts the CD player interface.
> > > 
> > > 	* Bonobo *control* that can display a music playing device.
> > > 
> > > A CD player should be implemented by using the CD player component
> > > hooked up to the music player control.  `player control' component can
> > > then be used by other applications.  The CD player component can be
> > > used by panel applets, regular cd players, and so on.
> > 
> > This is actually one of the next things I'm planning on adding to
> > gnome-media, implemented with the same interface/control split you
> > suggest.
> 
> That'd be really a very nice and cool thing to have :-)

Actually, I began working on an XPlayControl widget (and Bonobo Control) for
XMMS so you can use the input/output plugins it has as you wish...

Unfortunately, I did not get very far and got bogged down in RL and other code
(all I have right now is a widget that does nothing).

Regards,
Ali