[Muine] An Experimental Alarm Clock Plugin Update

[Brian Nickel <brian nickel gmail com>]

On usage, I found two major flaws in the Cuckoo plugin; the first being that I had to choose what was going to play the night before and populate the playlist, and the second being that I really don't use Muine's volume control, only the master volume, so every night I'd have to crank up the volume and mute gaim so it doesn't blast at people.

Well, in a non-clean, and non-beautiful fashion, I have come up with: http://www.public.asu.edu/~bnickel/muine-cuckoo/beta/
Yes, the next generation alarm clock, featuring playlists AND Mixers a la GStreamer.

So beautiful, so perfect, there's got to be some horrible catch... Well, you're right. This plugin depends on gst-sharp, a dot-net library I've not found anything about, except how to download the unstable version from subersion. Moreover, rather than probing all mixers, it just looks at the alsamixer, so it really isn't useful for non-linux muine usage. Overall, I wouldn't claim this software to be ready to publish and boast about, but it solves all my needs, and it may solve yours.

Keep it real,
Brian