Re: merging cdplayer_applet and gtcd

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:24:01PM -0700, Josh Steiner wrote:
> I just started looking into making some changes to cdplayer_applet and
> gtcd to make them a little more consistant and wanted to get your
> opinions.
> 
> i would like to add cddb track name support into the panel app so that
> when you click on the track number display, a menu with the tracks like in
> gtcd pops up and lets you change the track.  i would also like to add a
> tooltips to the panel app, and it really should be sharing the
> configuration with gtcd since to the user they feel like diferent
> instances of the same app (if they don't like the tooltips, they won't
> have to turn them off in two diferent places to get stop them in the cd
> players).  So i could go about adding the preference support by
> cut'n'pasting code from gtcd into cdplayer_applet , but i think it is much
> cleaner to simply merge the two apps into one directory so that
> cdplayer_applet can share the preferences and cddb code.  what do you
> think?

Yes, this is a good idea.  Do talk to the gtcd maintainer however (Tim Gerla).

George

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