On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 11:06 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote: > On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:29:50 +0000 Bastien Nocera wrote: > > >Heya, > > > >There are a few widgets in use in multimedia applications. The first > >one is: > >- BaconVolumeWidget, living in the libbacon module in SVN. It's > >currently used by a large number of applications, cut'n'pasted (Totem, > >Rhythmbox, LastExit, Banshee, Muine, Sound-Juicer, possibly others). > > I feel like this is a bit special-purpose and heavy for a GUI toolkit, > no? What kind of dependencies would it add to gtk? Obviously the > widget isn't very useful without an A/V framework backend, and I > wouldn't want to see gtk depend on gstreamer, xine-lib, etc. > > Or maybe it could be done similar to theme engines or file system > backends: let A/V backends be installable separately without being a > hard dependency of gtk (obviously the video widget wouldn't do > much/anything without a backend installed).
It doesn't depend on any A/V framework. I'm not sure what's heavy duty about: $ wc -l bacon-volume.[ch] 846 bacon-volume.c 57 bacon-volume.h 903 total 900 lines of code. > >- HildonSeekbar[1], which would need quite a bit of reworking to be > >added to GTK+. The main differences with the default GtkScale widgets > >is that clicking on the through would seek directly to the place > >clicked, not progressively get closer to the point clicked. > > Can this be implemented in GtkScale as extra API instead of adding a > new widget? No, it requires changes to GtkRange as well, and one thing that was made clear last I talked about this type of widget is that it should look different from the existing GtkScale widgets. > >The other > >difference is the ability to mark a "fraction", ie. the amount of data > >already downloaded, and available for seeking. I can see Rhythmbox, > >Totem, Banshee, and any other apps dealing with streaming media using > >it. > > You mean sorta how YouTube does the seek bar with the little red > indicator that moves to the right as more data gets downloaded? Yeah, > that could be pretty useful, maybe in things other than multimedia > apps. But again, could this be implemented via extra API in an > existing widget? Yes and no. It also needs to be implemented in the Scale widget. -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
