I just did a fresh clone of the git repo to try the new context pane. When I try to load the plugin I get python errors about missing modules (webkit and Template.) Should this plugin be optional at build time with something to detect if the necessary python modules are installed?
Thanks, -- Lee On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 21:53:03 +1000 Jonathan Matthew <jonat...@d14n.org> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:22 PM, giopas <li...@giopas.eu> wrote: > > Thank you Jonathan! > > > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Jonathan Matthew > > <jonat...@d14n.org> wrote: > >> > >> I've just merged John Iacona's context pane plugin (a Google > >> Summer of Code project) into git master. This adds a side pane > >> displaying album and artist information sourced from last.fm. > > > > Excellent news: it's now two months that I'm using this plugin and > > it is really cool! > > > > I have just two comments on that: > > > > 1. I really like that context pane is able to retrieve album list, > > tracks and covers. But it is even more cool the fact that you can > > just grab album cover from context pane to album cover frame. > > However, if you do so the imported cover will have a very bad > > resolution. It would be amazing that when you grab the album cover > > from context pane to album cover frame, a "less resized" (with a > > better definition) image will be associated to the album, that > > probably means that rhythmboy should download again the album image > > from the same address pharsed by context pane. > > I don't think we have any control over that. It's all webkit. > > > 2. Since Last rhythm* plugin does not work any more, it would be > > nice to add one more panel to context pane in order to suggest > > similar artists. Or, other option, it would be even fine to merge > > TasteKid plugin to context pane. > > So, there are any number of things that interested people could add. > Some ideas: > - more data sources and types of information to display (such as > similar artists) > - a tab with links to various sites (wikipedia, discogs, musicbrainz, > ..) for artists and albums > - artist/album/lyrics tabs in song info windows (at which point the > context plugin can eat the lyrics plugin) > - personal play history/rating statistics > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
