[Announce] Packed Media Widget - Homescreen widget - maemo.org

gionni88 | # 1 | 2011-07-23, 21:33 | Report

Packed Media Widget is an homescreen widget to control Multimedia player, SomePlayer and InternetRadioPlayer, all at once.

It's made of 8buttons, in a 2x4 grid. The ones on the right are the control ones, and the ones on the left, hidden, are used to change the player to affect or to start it.

Starting from the bottom, the context buttons are: Multimedia, SomePlayer, InternetRadioPlayer and "start".
To use the widget, first a context button must be pressed since at widget startup there is no context chosen.
"Start" button behaves differently based on the chosen context:

For Multimedia, it "plays" the song. It's a play, not a resume, so the song will be restarted.
For Someplayer, it checks if the player is running, and it does it in case it's not.
For InternetRadioPlayer, it starts the player if not running, or it shows it if hidden.

Widget is highly customizabled, from sizes to colours.

Actually in Extras-devel.

Packed Media Widget.

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vi_ | # 2 | 2011-07-23, 21:45 | Report

Originally Posted by gionni88 View Post

Packed Media Widget is an homescreen widget to control Multimedia player, SomePlayer and InternetRadioPlayer, all at once.

It's made of 8buttons, in a 2x4 grid. The ones on the right are the control ones, and the ones on the left, hidden, are used to change the player to affect or to start it.

Starting from the bottom, the context buttons are: Multimedia, SomePlayer, InternetRadioPlayer and "start".
To use the widget, first a context button must be pressed since at widget startup there is no context chosen.
"Start" button behaves differently based on the chosen context:

For Multimedia, it "plays" the song. It's a play, not a resume, so the song will be restarted.
For Someplayer, it checks if the player is running, and it does it in case it's not.
For InternetRadioPlayer, it starts the player if not running, or it shows it if hidden.

Widget is highly customizabled, from sizes to colours.

Actually in Extras-devel.

Packed Media Widget.

Cool, however I must ask. What is the widget on the top right?

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gionni88 | # 3 | 2011-07-23, 22:08 | Report

Top right? There is no widget there other than PackedMediaWidget.

EDIT: if you meant the bar, it's painted over the background.

Last edited by gionni88; 2011-07-23 at 22:16.

vi_ | # 4 | 2011-07-23, 22:25 | Report

oopz, I actually meant top left. So in effect your right (kind of).

What is the widget, top left?

x61 | # 5 | 2011-07-23, 23:19 | Report

Originally Posted by vi_ View Post

oopz, I actually meant top left. So in effect your right (kind of).

What is the widget, top left?

How could that possibly be his right and your left? Is he looking upside down or you looking upside down... that's the only possibility I can think off...

Electricgod | # 6 | 2011-07-24, 06:48 | Report

awesome work!

BTW could you make it rotate to landscape mode ?

gionni88 | # 7 | 2011-07-24, 08:37 | Report

Originally Posted by vi_ View Post

oopz, I actually meant top left. So in effect your right (kind of).

What is the widget, top left?

Well, as Protagora used to say, "Everything is relative".

That's a calendar widget written with Qt and QtMobility to suit my desktop style.

@Electricgod: ye, I may add an orientation option.

amadeukaos | # 8 | 2011-07-24, 16:17 | Report

I installed via FAM, reboot, but I can´t see any new widget or icon, what´s wrong?
thanks, seens to be a great app

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Alfred | # 9 | 2011-07-24, 16:30 | Report

Originally Posted by amadeukaos View Post

I installed via FAM, reboot, but I can´t see any new widget or icon, what´s wrong?
thanks, seens to be a great app

well, have you added it?

And now question to the dev. Is it possible to add a online radio functionality to those buttons, when i am in MAEMO media player "MOD"? i mean the lowest quarter.

Last edited by Alfred; 2011-07-24 at 16:33.

cutehunk04 | # 10 | 2011-07-24, 16:54 | Report

i thought we can watch movies or any video file right from homescreen...

but appreciate your effort... good work mate