Re: "Now Playing" app
 

Installed, configured and tested = Class. Thanks very muchly. That is a really cool great little utility.

Re: "Now Playing" app
 

Yup, Garage project got approved, see my sig.

I'm pushing a dead-simple version to devel tonight, basically Faheems version with some tiny fixes, xsession init and package wrapping around it to get comments from brave testers, then start really fixing and improving it.

I'll post again when package is in -devel.

Re: "Now Playing" app
 

nowplayingd 0.1-2 is now available from extras-devel.

Screenshot: http://tumi.kuvat.fi/kuvat/public/ma...0.1-2.png/full

My TODO includes:
* better handling of notifications (cough, do videos need notifications too?), including stop/start
* add support for showing filenames or best guess if artist/title id3 tags aren't available
* allow configuration of banner visibility
* allow configuration of default click action - stop, next track, open mediaplayer being obvious choises
* allow using hildonbanner instead
* add configuration applet for mentioned options
* some basic battery saving features
* use proper makefiles and rules instead of hacks
* fixing code so it doesnt leak or complain
* do it all in Qt

Suggestions and feedback welcome! I don't spit on patches either :-)

Re: "Now Playing" app
 

Personally, and this is just me, I don't need notifications when I stop a track. For videos, I'd say there's no point: When playing a video, you can't see notifications anyway (they go into the background) due to the DnD Atom being set.

Definitely! I'm hoping that it's a matter of just finding the right metadata key.

Agreed. Customisable timeouts and having it destroyed when the track is stopped is what I did for Now Playing Notifier.

(BTW: Why g_timeout_add_seconds () instead of notify_notification_set_timeout () ? :))

Opening the Media Player is already handled in that sample code; a dbus-send line for pausing is here: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...9&postcount=38 - replace "pause" with "stop/next".

Yes: HildonBanner is actually what I prefer for these sort of notifications.

Yes, preferably in the Control Panel.

Yes, I don't think notifications do anybody any good when the display is off =)

I like Autotools. :)

What?! OK... It shouldn't leak, but I do see it complaining. :\
Though, here's one thing that I neglected to do: notify_uninit () on exit.

*cries* Come on, man. MAFW and the notification APIs are all GObject-based, anyway, so is there any point to using Qt (if you hadn't already guessed, I'm anti-Qt and pro-Gtk+)?

Anyway, since I've already done some of these for Now Playing Notifier, I'll try and send some patches your way.

Re: "Now Playing" app
 

I agree that notification about stopping a song isn't really useful..
And videoplayer doesn't need a notification because, well, you don't have time to glance at notifications when you enjoy your video (in my opinion).

Could it be possible to get that notification box to open from, let's say the camera key? That way if you were too distracted by maemo.org when that song started you could check again what it was..

Anywho, amazing how fast you made that thing. You just made my day. :)

Re: "Now Playing" app
 

Now I'm just wondering if you're trying to piss me off. :)

But, anyway, tuminoid, would you mind me requesting to join since I'm actually contributing instead of just whining (*cough*)? At the very least, it'd give me a better place to discuss this instead of this ****ty thread. I've figured out how to get the filenames using MafwPlaylist if it helps and would like to contribute a patch:
Obviously, the filename needs to be cleaned up but GLib has functions for that IIRC.

Re: "Now Playing" app
 

Thanks guys!

Just installed it and it works nicely so far!

My request would be that instead of showing some media player icon together with the artist and song, it would show the actual album art if available. Doable?

Edit: This is how it looks for me if anyone is interested ;)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4030/...8d1acbf1_o.png

Re: "Now Playing" app
 

I love it, guys. Great idea... now if only we can get the song from MAFW used as my status message on IM... :)

Re: "Now Playing" app
 

Heh, I meant cleaning them up. Videos are producing notifications even they're not shown (except if you quickly ctrl-backspace while notification is shown), but I'd still like to fix it. Same for stopping/pausing/whatever, the point is to get rid of them where inappropriate.


Of course I don't mind, it'd be nice to have someone to collaborate with in some projects.

Hehe, not trying to piss you off :) As said in 0.1-1 changelog, this 0.1 release is simply about producing/packaging a prototype, THEN recode/refactor the code. (I'm assuming you mean I used rather exact copy of your sample code?)


Just a quick hack :/

I noticed your post about Diablo version, seems that you and me think alike.


Yup, I was just writing down the options I'm gonna implement. Thanks for the link.


I somehow like the notify notifications better myself, so thats why there is gonna be an option.


Yup, where else? Config applets as apps are shitty idea.


Exactly. I'm just thinking that just simply removing the notification probably isn't making much difference, as hildon-desktop probably ignores notifications when display is off anyways. But perhaps we could unsubscribe from MAFW when display goes off or something to totally prevent waking up.


Me too, IF the project is worth it.


I checked it and it doesn't leak while operating, but cleanup isn't clean (not that it really matters, we are exiting only on shutdown...)


Nooooo, I didn't notice?! :-D

I'm not gonna shove Qt where it doesn't belong, but perhaps the config app could be written with Qt, in hopes of porting it to MeeGo easily (though I see so many obstacles in the way it might not be worth it, or app might not even be necessary then anymore)

Thanks man. Send the maintainer request and I'll add you.

Re: "Now Playing" app
 

Thanks for an idea, it should be doable. I'll add it to the TODO list.