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Does the N8x0 have QML?? Does anybody know? Google could probably help me but I am on my way out. I'll look later tonight if I don't get an answer.

If I go QML it will likely be in conjunction with pySide just because I really don't want to get back into C. (That's the native QML language right?) - And like I said above, I am really trying to avoid dealing with Javascript again.

If you are good QML design though, and would be able to work up a .qml file that has the same layout as pyRadio now - I would be interested in then porting the Python code over to work with the QML.

Awesome.. thanks for the information. (that's serious, not sarcastic )

That's awesome to hear you're looking to clean up the appearance for this wonderful app.

I was thinking of a black background with a gold trim around the cover art.

Gold trimming around the buttons would also look hot but maybe that's just the Paris Hilton in me talking.

To have custom buttons, would I have to compile them in Python?

Like those five little button graphics aren't stored somewhere like most apps, yes?

The icons are in images_rc.py. I used qtDesigner to build the interface into a .ui and then converted it with pyuic, which included the icons.

I don't know of a way to go backwards from python back to standard. You'd have to deconstruct all that hex-like code and change it to the new icons you want.

^ And I believe that would be way far too beyond for me to understand.

If you are really interested in messing with it I can get you the .ui file and the image png files and the images.qrc file.

You can load those into qtDesigner (a WYSIWYG editor) and re-design the interface however you want. You'll have to convert it to python with pyuic and replace my pyRadio_ui.py file and images_rc.py. If you keep the same button names and stuff it's just a drop-in replacement.

I know that probably sounds like a lot but it's not really that hard. Read through this:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=43663

And subsequently my follow up post:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...218#post515218

If it looks like something you want to play with I will get you the files.

Yeah, it sounds like quite alot. *lol*

Well, let me rifle the net later and see if I can't find some super catchy button images while trying not to break any copyright law thingies for this.

By the way, and this is simply subjective of course... I can't get Media Player, Xmms (even with the Extra Stereo Plugin 1.2.10), and certainly not Vagalume, all of them at their highest volume setting, to play quite as loud as your PyRadio.

It would be great if there was anything that you did or learned with this that could possibly carry over to these other apps as well.

Unfortunately not really. All I did was send a volume of 100 to the Backend which was primarily done by pycage for MediaBox. Essentially, I just raise the volume to 100 in OSSO for the N8x0. The other apps may use gstreamer or something else and those apps would need to set it to 100 in the code. If they do, it's possible the built-in sound system can get louder than third party systems.

Ok, largely thanks to rm_you for compiling the fluendo mp3 codec for me pyRadio works on MeeGo. There's no package or anything for it yet because I am still going to work on making this the same version that works on N900/N8x0 using PySide and will need to double check the dependencies and all that crap.

Also need to work on the UI.

Maybe someone smarter than me can tell me.. these sources are free to download: http://core.fluendo.com/gstreamer/src/gst-fluendo-mp3/ and I think they are under the MIT license.

Can they be repackaged and distributed?

I found some good stuff like this
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-4029...-and-gold.html
for the UI to PyRadio, but almost everything is owned by shutterstock or some other online company.

Poopers.

I'll have a look over at
http://gnome-look.org
to see if there is anything freely available later tonight.

Cheers.