Does that orientation button rotate the screen or only the app? I really like the idea of rotating the app independently of the device's current orientation but it makes the app more complex. The app must still detect orientation changes so it can update its model. But now the app has four drawing modes: landscape-landscape, landscape-portrait, portrait-portrait, portrait-landscape. The other options it to have the button rotate the device's orientation so the app only needs to support two drawing modes. But does it then support all four orientations or only two? Adding three lines to Telescope allows me to press Home followed by the zoom keys to rotate the device left or right.


The wrapper could kill mplayer when pausing, and then seek to the last position when restarting it. That would lower its power usage to zero when paused.

Yay, not me! @ mitrandir: use C++ and Xlib like you did with Telescope.

Regarding flickable scrolling, if you support this could you add a setting to adjust its speed. I would prefer to have it very low to make it easier to browse and not end up several pages away with a slight scroll. ASUI's process viewer has some fast list scrolling code if you need it, an additional timer and speed setting could be added to give it inertia support.

Make sure it has a good dbus interface so it can be controlled by another program, such as ASUI's audio lock mode. And when I make my file manager I can launch audio files and playlist files into your player. I could even dynamically generate a playlist file for a given directory or all selected directories (in the file manager) and have your player play it. Then you could focus on the hard task of making a good audio player and I can focus on the easy stuff. Would also be nice if you could make it play videos so I could launch them in it as well.


He only needs to send a blanking pause to DSME when the button is pressed and send an unblank when pressed again. Not sure why you'd want to drain your battery faster just to see your playlist or current song. You could keep the screen lit and not drain battery if you just plug it in.