Re: Multimedia widgets in GTK+?

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:12:53 +0000 Bastien Nocera wrote:

>On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 11:06 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:29:50 +0000 Bastien Nocera wrote:
>> 
>> >Heya,
>> >
>> >There are a few widgets in use in multimedia applications. The first
>> >one is:
>> >- BaconVolumeWidget, living in the libbacon module in SVN. It's
>> >currently used by a large number of applications, cut'n'pasted
>> >(Totem, Rhythmbox, LastExit, Banshee, Muine, Sound-Juicer, possibly
>> >others).
>> 
>> I feel like this is a bit special-purpose and heavy for a GUI
>> toolkit, no?  What kind of dependencies would it add to gtk?
>> Obviously the widget isn't very useful without an A/V framework
>> backend, and I wouldn't want to see gtk depend on gstreamer,
>> xine-lib, etc.
>> 
>> Or maybe it could be done similar to theme engines or file system
>> backends: let A/V backends be installable separately without being a
>> hard dependency of gtk (obviously the video widget wouldn't do
>> much/anything without a backend installed).
>
>It doesn't depend on any A/V framework.  I'm not sure what's heavy duty
>about:
>$ wc -l bacon-volume.[ch]
>  846 bacon-volume.c
>   57 bacon-volume.h
>  903 total
>
>900 lines of code.

Yeah, I'm an idiot.  I somehow read 'BaconVideoWidget' where you typed
'BaconVolumeWidget'.  I'll go wash my eyes out now and look again.

	-brian