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Hello,

With Canola beta7 the support was there, but there was no easy way to develop and test the plugins. You can now download the desktop build, the same we use for development and test your plugins first on the desktop then just send the files and test on the device.

Theme makers can also compile new themes this way.

Use this thread for basic information, but I highly suggest any interested developer with doubts to go to IRC channel #canola on freenode :

irc.freenode.net

GET the build, and the README Files here :
http://www.openbossa.indt.org/canola/developer.html

BR

Marcelo

Marcelo...

SO AWESOME

It is so darned' smooth on the PC. Utterly beautiful. But, I do have a small question... All my music is in the Ogg format, is there any way to index it on this developer edition?

Unmm... Take a look on the open source version of light media scanner..
with that, you can modify it to use ogg easily... but I will talk to the guys to see how they do that on the pc

Now you see how Canola should be smooth Even with a icnredible work from gustavo on the 16-bit engine... it's really complicated to have a incredible performance on those devices, adding the tearing makes it look even worse on desktop, without any 3D is already Sweet

Glad you like it, this was the first task of a buddy in the office (Fleury) Kudos to him

Marcelo

is there any way to run the desktop version in non-fullscreen?

Jgallen : the default way is non-fullscreen. If this is set, open the file canola-run.sh and add the option -n

BR

Marcelo

does the developer version play videos ?

Rip : yes, it uses the regular mplayer in the desktop also.

Marcelo

Hello Marcelo and team, I had an idea that think would help make Canola the even better and the ultimate killer app, but I don't know if it is possible. I'm posting it here so that if you like it you could develp it as a plugin or maybe someone else (I wish I could).

What I would like is to control the music on a remote PC via Canola.

I know that the IT tablet can control a remote PC via VNC or via a Web Based Interface but none of those ways can compare to the beautiful Canola interface so I was wondering if there could be a way to use the IT with Canola to control the music on a remote PC. Basically to browse the share of a PC on your network or index it another way, but instead of playing it and consuming it directly on your device, to play it on the remote PC.

Sort of like a SONOS type system. I know that there are other ways to do this like installing on the remote PC Alloysoft's Signal which helps you control winamp or Itunes via browser (not only on iphones, I've tried it with microb), but it doesn't have the fancy flick scrolling or the cool interface.

If this were possible you could use the IT on the road and on the car, but at home you would not need to hook it up to your stereo and you would have the computer's "infinite" storage capacity, the battery "should" last longer as you are not using as much resources and as with Sonos you would have your wifi's full coverage.

I don't know if I'm asking for too much, but a plugin like that would really kick butt!


Let me know what you think.

Tarkam.

To my post above this one. If the remote PC has apache and PHP installed, those can be used to control Winamp. Maybe it could be done by reading a "simple" web-page with the list of songs? I could help on the PC's end.

how do I install plugins on the desktop version? I downloaded the youtube plugin and untar'd it into the plugins folder, but the youtube icon doesn't show up