I wouldn't have a problem, no, but it'd have to be manually synced and optified of course =)
Yup, but thats nothing impossible, just time consuming and close to borderline of "too much work/risk for little gain". I guess its one of the last things to implementa, sugar on top.
Yes, agreed. Apologies, I'm going overboard here. I do have to admit that I would like a statusmenu applet because I'm too lazy to go to the deskop but that is outside the scope of the notifier. Maybe in my own time...
That my friend sounds like a perfect plugin: a simple mediaplayer applet. Shove play/pause and nexttrack buttons + artist/title in a statusmenu item and its an instant hit! I'd be happy to retire the mediaplayer desktop widget!
I'm not bothered either way, TBH. It's much nicer to test it as a daemon, though.
That is definitely true and it makes very little difference to end-user, so I'll put that idea on hold until I can figure a compelling reason to do so.
Got it!
Thx alot! Good work!
Like the app, as simple as it can be, I don't miss anything. If I read it right you also wanted to implement a next-trackbutton in the notify. To me, that'd be the only thing further needed, but I dont know if its possible and if its gonna be easy to make a good difference between tapping it to go to the mediaplayer and tapping 'next track'.
Perhaps repeat track could also be usefull.
That's one more opinion for ya guys
Repeat is not possible or useful even. Next track is simple but configuration applet takes some time to create. Note that there is only single action happening when you click the notification, its not like we can add buttons there
am i blind?
or is this app missing a menu where it can be deactivated?
it's great if you're browsing or doing something on a desktop where the media player widget isn't on...
but i would like to deactivate it for some time too
(couldn't find a button in the statusbar and no point in the settings :/ )
No, there is no option to deactivate it...I pointed that out too earlier...that maybe it could be in settings somehow, or in the statusapplet.
I would hate to uninstall it, I love it!
am i blind?
or is this app missing a menu where it can be deactivated?
it's great if you're browsing or doing something on a desktop where the media player widget isn't on...
but i would like to deactivate it for some time too
(couldn't find a button in the statusbar and no point in the settings :/ )
Nowplayingd is in development and is not yet having such feature. Disabling happens by uninstalling (well, you can disable it until reboot from Xterm, as root say "dsmetool -k /usr/bin/nowplayingd", re-run it with "dsmetool -f /usr/bin/nowplayingd")
Thanks for the app, wonderful job
Wouldn't it be better/cleaner/easier (w/e ) to use this instead of the notification method?
Edit: Well it would disable the click to open media player function.
Just thought of another thing, might look at the code and edit/learn to edit C code
Thinking of adding a LED notification (traffic light pattern that doesn't repeat itself), sure it wouldn't help with the original idea of the program but it might be considered as an improvement.
Thanks for the app, wonderful job
Wouldn't it be better/cleaner/easier (w/e ) to use this instead of the notification method?
Check the tasks at https://garage.maemo.org/projects/nowplayingd/ (can't give you a direct link, sorry; behind a firewall that blocks anything and everything). We do plan to add an option to make it use HildonBanner instead but I guess it's not a priority ATM.
Though I got this (sick) idea of having the configuration applet have a button, which would gather the album art from MAFW and batch process it to suitable icons. It'd take time, but since it would be in the applet and explicitly started by user, consuming time is no problem. Do you see problems with this approach?
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I somehow don't like the idea of creating/polluting the filesystem with thousands of small album art images. I sure hope they won't show up in the image gallery
How does the media player widget handle this? I guess it creates the album art of the current playing song on the fly.
Couldn't this be done by the 'now playing' daemon also? Or would it create a too long delay before the notification is displayed? I wouldn't mind an extra second or so delay before the notification is shown.
