On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:56, Jorn Baayen wrote: > Hello > > Browsing some of the gnomesuport RB forums it's very cool to see so many > people interested. However, 'just' taking over the project without any > gtk/glib experience is not going to work. The rhythmbox code in itself > is not the easiest thing in the world, and then gobject also requires > getting used to - if you just dive in fat chance you would a) not get > the big picture b) not understand much at all c) mess everything up. Yeah, this was a concern of mine at the beginning and I really hope that the guys have resolve to stick with it. It will take a while for these guys to get into it and it will take a while for the project to get going again. HEAD needs a fair bit of cleaning up, maybe even a bit of commenting ;) Would be really useful to have a comment at the start of each file to briefly describe where it fits in in the "big picture". > I am willing to function as project 'leader' for the coming couple of > months, as in reviewing patches, helping out setting up a new > architecture, giving advice, etc. I don't think I would code myself > though, or organise things - just canal stuff. And then once I see some > of the new developers found their way I will just pass on the job. That sounds really cool - Go Team! > > I read sisob's UI page, I quite like what's up there, apart from: > 1 - these checkboxes just need to go > 2 - not being able to queue (related to 1 ofc ourse), but this is > something very major for me. While the RB head UI is a mess, I kinda > liked it because I could play directly from the lib and queue easily, > both at the same time. A 'current playlist' view might work, however we > should also have a 'queue' (context)menu item then. Yeah, needs work. Has always been a point of contention and I need to think about it some more... > 3 - we need an easy search ui (first search result should be selected > also, and pressing return should start playing it - a la xmms) Yeah. I put up some mockups on http://xsu.sourceforge.net/search.html of different search box placements, but it probably needs some more thought. > 4 - the source selector needs some way to indicate which source is > playing What about the way it is done in the screenshots on http://xsu.sf.net/future.html -- .--= [ MArk Finlay - sisob ] =--. [ Gnome User's Board : www.gnomesupport.org/forums ] [ Public Key: http://evolvedoo.sf.net/sisobatericomdotnet.asc ]
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