Re: change tooltip for gnome-cd?

[Manuel Clos <llanero eresmas net>]

Kris Blindert wrote:
> I like gnome-cd quite a bit; it even goes into the panel when I run it 
> remotely, very nice.  But, I'd love to get different information when I 
> hold my mouse over the panel icon when it's running.  The default is to 
> show me the artist and album title.  I'd greatly prefer if the tooltip 
> told me the title of the current track!  Since that's actually the 

You can have two lines in a tooltip, so why not:

Song title
(Artist - Album title)

or something else?

> window title for gnome-cd, I think it ought to be possible to make this 
> change.  But I have no idea how.  Any suggestions?

gnome-cd is in the gnome-media tarball, but if you want to change the cd 
player applet, you must look for the cdplayer applet in the 
gnome-applets package.

Get the source, grep it, send a patch.

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Manuel Clos
llanero eresmas net

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