a general multimedia library - Re: Scrolling "seek" sliders

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

Well the topic of having a multimedia widget library has been discussed
multiple times and maybe now is the time to move on it?

Currently there are multiple things I see that would be natural to put
into such a library:

a) the gconf schemas in gnome-media 
b) the playlist parser library in totem
c) the seek sliders widgets mentioned here
d) a simple to use GStreamer GTK+ video widget
e) others things?

Basically this library would/could contain things which are higher level
our not directly in the scope of GStreamer. Or which is very GTK+/GNOME
related.

Christian

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 17:00 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 11:55 -0400, Aaron Bockover wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 11:44 -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 15:58 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > > Maybe we need to move things like the volume widget, and some "seek
> > > > sliders" to a library like gnome-media?
> > > 
> > > I would personally prefer libegg (or bacon, where the volume widget
> > > resides). I've never really seen gnome-media as a widget-library, but
> > > more like a bunch of applications and utilities.
> > > 
> > > I totally don't mind each app making their own copy if such widgets, as
> > > long as they update their copy reasonably often.
> > 
> > I agree here; bacon would probably be best if it were to be in a
> > library, but I think applications providing copies is fine too. I
> > wouldn't want to depend on bacon (or gnome-media) for a widget.
> 
> libbacon is a cut'n'paste library like libegg, so not a problem.
>