Re: Multimedia widgets in GTK+?

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi Bastien,

I found the BaconVolume quite useful So +1 from myself too. Other things that I
miss:
* a volume-meter
  I use GtkVUMeter right now, I would like to see a input/output vu-meters in
  the mixer. this is a good indicator for people to trac down why the don't hear
  their music. is the mixer volume down or is it the amplifiers.
  problem with the GtkVUMeter widget is that it has no license and the guy who
  wrote it does not reply. So we would need a 'new' one.
* better ruler widgets
  yes, I reead the comments that rules wont be extended.
  anyway, I miss there:
  * disabling the arrows that listen to the mouse moves,
  * logarithmic scales,
  * a unit label
  * numbers/labels on *some* ticks

Stefan

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 19:39 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 11:06 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>> - 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.
>> BaconVolume is just the widget, it doesn't actually control anything.
>> It is up to the application to connect to the changed signal and
>> implement the volume setting.
> 
> First patch is here:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415775
> 
> I'd appreciate comments by the people who actually use it.
>