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Messages - ochosi

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Hey Photon,
sorry for the late reply. Seeing that you put some effort into a variant of the icon-theme and talking to Quentin about the inclusion of Faenza by default made me clean up the icon theme a bit and create a few missing icons.
It should now be complete (in the shimmer github repo), so please pull it and let me know what you think.

I think the two variants should be consistent in the icons they use, so we should harmonize them in some aspects. There also shouldn't be any duplicates, so if you wanna keep the queue icons in from the elementary-icon-theme they'd have to become symlinks. gtk-preferences_20 can be dropped, I used to use that specifically in a layout of mine, but I later realized that customizations like this don't really make that much sense.

I took a quick look into Faenza-darkest today and there a few icons that I'd replace with the versions from upstream, simply because it's more consistent with the rest of the desktop then. (E.g. view-list-compact, view-list-icons, view-list-details)

So the good news is that the icons will get included, but we have to finalize them first!
Cheers,
Simon
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Customization / Re: [PLUGIN] Albuminfo
November 01, 2012, 18:17:48
from what i remember when last investigating, the allmusic-api has become unfree, so the plugin can't use it anymore. that's why it doesn't work anymore.

it would have to be rewritten for a different site/service.
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Suggestions / Re : Local events Plugin possible?
October 24, 2012, 18:39:48
True, but the artistinfo plugin shows the information based on the currently playing artist, not on your current location.

This is definitely do-able, but I'd put it in a separate plugin. If you want to work on it, simply fork the artistinfo-plugin, drop everything but the events-tab and change the calls to get the events near your location. As far as I know that should be easy (but you need authentication, so you'd need to copy that over from the last-fm plugin).
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Customization / Re: Plugins by laite
October 17, 2012, 08:49:43
Great to see that, laite! :)
How about uploading some illustrative screenshots to the wiki?
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Although this is a recurring discussion and I've made my points already a few times, I'll do a quick summary for those of you who aren't around long enough :)

About the name:
On the one hand, software names are overrated. Even apps with great names can suck and then you ditch them no matter what. But I agree (and it seems to be a commonplace, because even Quentin agrees with that to some extent) that the name is not ideal. Changing it is an option, in my opinion. I've seen it take place before (Thunderbird > Icedove, Firefox > Iceweasel, Postler > Geary). It's not really problematic in my experience, neither for users, nor for devs. But it's totally up to Quentin.

About the icon:
Yes, I've recently worked on the camel-head with my graphic tablet. I think it's possible to just do a high-res version of a camel with headphones if you're a skilled painter. I'm not sure I can do it, but I could certainly try.
I've already proposed a change of app-icon in the past, in X/Ubuntu gmusicbrowser ships with an icon created by Pasi and me. This icon is in accordance with our vision of more generic application icons, that symbolize the function of the app rather than its name.

About the default layout:
It's not easy to make a layout that is accessible to everyone and at the same time doesn't totally hide gmb's comprehensive functionality. I tried with "Shimmer Desktop", worked on that for quite a while. I also did an icon-theme (elementary) for gmusicbrowser. You can find all that in the package that is shipped in Xubuntu by default.

And a quick disclaimer: while I'm still enthusiastic about gmusicbrowser, my time to work on it has decreased over the last year. I've become more active in other projects (mainly Xfce), so I can't make any promises with respect to future contributions. This is partly also due to the project generally slowing down a bit, which is fine, and I guess if there's more development I might just hop on the train again ;)
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Questions / Re: Add folders does nothing
September 25, 2012, 08:40:43
sorry for the late response, but yes, my ppa should contain the fix.
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I just uploaded a new version (reflecting the latest changes to git master) to the PPA, should be built soon.
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I don't think there's a direct problem with the code. If you resize the sidepane that holds the cover-widget (even by 1px), the no-cover.svg shows up. Probably a bug in gmusicbrowser, I'm not 100% sure.

Please change the layout Type to G (instead of G+), G+ is only meant for layouts that contain a "layouts" menu or submenu, so users can switch back and forth without having to go to the layouts tab in the preferences window.
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I haven't looked at the layout code yet, but it seems you're only showing the cover in the listview (not the treeview-with-cover and not the mosaic view), is that on purpose?

"no-cover.svg" is only supposed to be shown when the currently playing album has no cover/artwork set.
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looks great (and somewhat similar to shimmer-desktop ;) ) and might fit well into the "make it look like" category!
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that all sounds nice and swell, but where is the layout?  :D
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hey staubi,

sorry for taking so long to reply.
the artists-tab has been dropped a while ago, as i was reshaping the left-side of the player to become more contextual and less of a filter. (i added filters like "artists" in the list-view instead)

since quentin has already told you how to get it back there's no need for me to repeat that now.

so the main thing you use this "universal" tab for is filtering for recently added songs?
(i personally use a "history"-sort mode in songtree to see what has been added recently.)
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i'm also in favor of basic streaming support.

@quentin: i'm wondering whether it might be a good first step to add the functionality under the hood, so that at least plugins can make use of it. that way you don't have to have the UI totally figured out, yet people who want to can try to use it.
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hey!

i'm not the gmusicbrowser developer but i thought since this thread has been quiet for a while i'd say something.
i think that your ideas are great and i'd love to see them implemented. i wrote a plugin for gmusicbrowser (artistinfo) that would work well with what you propose. it generates automatic queues (=dynamic playlists) based on similarity suggestions by lastfm. obviously it only plays local artists, but it would be very cool to extend this to streams.

i'm not entirely sure how hard it would be to enable streaming for gmusicbrowser, but i think it shouldn't be extremely hard. iirc gmusicbrowser had basic radio support a long time ago, at least i stumbled across snippets of that. judging from my discussions with quentin about webradio-support the main problem was the lack of standards for the song-information returned by radio-stations and the question of how to implement it in the user interface.

all the best
simon
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just a quick comment: it's probably better to go with only one of the ppas. usually they shouldn't interfere, because andreas' version-numbering system differs from mine so his versions would always overrule, but mine contains a few modifications and by switching to andreas' version you'd lose those (or to look at it from the other perspective: your known behavior from andreas' ppa would differ suddenly).
having that said, the changes are not really that big, mostly exchanging some click-actions and different default settings/layouts.