Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] [patch] Show window when not visible

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 23:04, Rached Ben Mustapha wrote:
> > > How will the recent discussions about show/hide impact the bonobo
> > > interface ?
> > 
> > Ah, now that show/hide has now been restored to its original behavior.
> 
> ok.
> 
> > > I think I'll have some time to hack on it and sync it with the
> > current
> > > source this evening or this week-end - I'm still motivated :)
> > 
> > Nag, nag :)
> > 
> > Are you running into any trouble?  
> 
> Well, not code-wise, thanks :). I just managed to get extremely busy :(
> 
> > People keep asking me about extending the Bonobo interface (for writing
> > a gdesklet), and more commandline options for play/pause/next etc., so
> > I'd really like to see this patch in :)
> 
> Ok, so I promise I'll post the updated patch tomorrow (I'm not at home) in its 
> current state at worse (which should apply and compile and work fine) :).
> 
> And in case I get some extra time, what are the features people would like to 
> have ? I can see, apart from those already existing :
> 
> - play/pause/next/back
> - stop (is it really useful now that the sound device is released on pause ?)

Doesn't look very useful.

> - get current / total song time, and maybe seek to a given second in the song
> - get/set visibility, repeat and shuffle
> 
> I'm not sure if the bonobo interface is suited for library/source operations 
> such as inspection and selection, as data sets can be huge. If those are 
> useful I'll write another patch :)

Asking RB to:
- save the playlist to disk
- not write to the physical playlist
- write again to the physical playlist
can be useful for applications wanting to operate on the playlist file
itself.

Cheers

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Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> 
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