A quick ‘n dirty Release Candidate 1 of gmpc 0.15.5 and a set of plugins. Some plugins versions aren’t updated yet.. but this is it: http://download.sarine.nl/gmpc-0.15.5-rc1/
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Something I didn’t know, but about as useful as it gets.
October 28, 2007 – 4:37 pm
I needed to detect if the tray icon is embedded, or looses it. There is not a signal for that in GtkStatusIcon. And I got the following tip: You can connect a signal to a G::Objects property. Just bind a signal to: “notify:: ” in my case: “notify::embedded”. Now I hopefully never forget.
Gmpc magnatune plugin memory reduction.
October 25, 2007 – 2:14 pm
Being ill is not fun, but it does give you the time to tackle something that is been buggin you for a while. (if you are not to ill, off course). I’ve spend 30 minutes replacing libxml in the magnatune plugin with libaxl. What happens in the following plots is the following: 1. start gmpc. read more
Moving gmpc/libmpd source repository
October 20, 2007 – 10:23 pm
I have moved from svn to git. I will try to keep svn “in sync” but that will stop somewhere in the future. The git hosting is done by repo.or.cz. Just another great free service. gmpc: gmpc git repository libmpd: libmpd git repository I am making things release ready in gmpc, in the upcoming release read more
Fancy looking Song announcement
October 13, 2007 – 5:26 pm
Well a pictures sais more then a 1000 words.. So I’ll post a little movie: http://random.sarine.nl/gmpc-osd3.ogg To show it’s transparent: http://random.sarine.nl/gmpc-osd4.ogg
Notification Avant-window-Navigator style
October 12, 2007 – 10:44 pm
There is a notify-daemon applet for the avant-window-navigator, tonight I spend some time making the thing a bit more pretty. Some results: and As you can see, with the gmpc-awn plugin, gmpc also shows the cover art in the avn tray (there seems to be a bug where avn doesn’t update it correctly) and shows read more
The briliance of the small things
October 1, 2007 – 10:18 pm
I truely like small things, like the message option that is available if you lock your screen. This is something I often miss, you look up somebody, he/she isn’t there. This is allot better then searching for a pen and a post it note. I hope hackers always find time to implement these little things, read more