[Goodies-dev] xfce4-soundmenu-plugin V0.4.1

Matias De lellis mati86_dl at yahoo.com.ar
Tue Mar 6 16:27:50 CET 2012


What is it?
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A very basic xfce4-panel plugin to control any players MPRIS2 compatible Based on last xfce4-sample-plugin (http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-sample-plugin), and written with the excuse to learn dbus thank to http://www.aliov.org/?page_id=47 :) That can make this plugin?
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Basically adds four buttons (The Classics Prev, Play/Pause, Stop, Next) to control any player that use mpris2. Optionally you can add the image of the current album to the panel, and can hide the stop button. But if you compile with libclastfm (http://liblastfm.sourceforge.net/), you gain support to Scrobble, Love and Unlove in lastfm. In this way you set up lastfm only in this plugin, and you always have scroble independently of the player you are using.
.. and if you compile with keybinder, you'll always get the control of players with the multimedia key. Never more a player is going to steal control of these keys!.
.. and if you compile with libglyr (https://github.com/sahib/glyr), you will have very easy to find the lyrics, and artist info of current song. In the next version add support for more information..
.. and if you compile with libnotify, you will get a better information when glyr not found certain information. The idea is show notifications of change song, and show the same experience regardless of player used, but will in the next versions.. Well..
In short you can compile it to your taste .. 
Website: https://github.com/matiasdelellis/xfce4-soundmenu-plugin
Downloads: https://github.com/matiasdelellis/xfce4-soundmenu-plugin/downloads 
Release notes for 0.4.1
- Now is compiled as a module as recommended in the documentation.
- [PATCH] Use Xfce 4.8 locations for plugin and desktop file.
- [PATCH 2/3] Update FSFE address.
- [PATCH 3/3] Fix author name.
- PATCHS thanks to Christoph Wickert.
- Fix compile with libnotify < 0.7
- Fix transparency issue when no show the cover art.
- Test some NULL string before use it.
- Change plugin website to github.
- Clean changelog. Update it whit make dist.
- Update es.po and pot file.

NOTE: Lastfm scrobble now depend on libclastfm >= 0.5

p.s: Please, need help to port to xfce4-panel 4.9 and the new deskbar mode. All contributions, criticisms, suggestions and translations are welcomed.

Regards.



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