XMMS open file dialog box

[Filip Sedivy]

Hello. I was just wondering if it would be possible to use the
same (default) "open file" dialog box for XMMS program as Firefox and other
applications in FC3 in Gnome use. The current open file dialog box used with XMMS is
pretty "ugly" and it would help XMMS be more polished and consistent with
Fedora. XMMS menus could use the same theme also but I guess, I should address that to the
XMMS developers, right? 
Just and idea, though. Thanks.

[Bill Nottingham]

Filip Sedivy (FilipSedivy(a)mail.boisestate.edu) said: 
>  Hello. I was just wondering if it would be possible to use the
>  same (default) "open file" dialog box for XMMS program as Firefox and other
> applications in FC3 in Gnome use. The current open file dialog box used with XMMS is
> pretty "ugly" and it would help XMMS be more polished and consistent with
> Fedora. XMMS menus could use the same theme also but I guess, I should address that to the
> XMMS developers, right? 
>  Just and idea, though. Thanks. 
Would require actually porting the app to GTK 2 first - there
are variations on this already (Beep, for one). Of course, at
that point the question is do you just want to rewrite the media
player itself.

Bill

[Colin Walters]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 23:23 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>  Filip Sedivy (FilipSedivy(a)mail.boisestate.edu) said: 
>  > Hello. I was just wondering if it would be possible to use the
>  > same (default) "open file" dialog box for XMMS program as Firefox and
> other applications in FC3 in Gnome use. The current open file dialog box used with XMMS is
> pretty "ugly" and it would help XMMS be more polished and consistent with
> Fedora. XMMS menus could use the same theme also but I guess, I should address that to the
> XMMS developers, right? 
>  > Just and idea, though. Thanks.
>  
>  Would require actually porting the app to GTK 2 first - there
>  are variations on this already (Beep, for one). Of course, at
>  that point the question is do you just want to rewrite the media
>  player itself. 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138581

In summary, I think if we just address a few minor things then
totem/HelixPlayer could fulfill the role xmms plays now.

[ash]

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hi!

On Friday 07 Jan 2005 10:27, Colin Walters wrote:
>  In summary, I think if we just address a few minor things then
>  totem/HelixPlayer could fulfill the role xmms plays now. 
just a thought, but
can't amarok be included as the default media player 
instead of xmms?

amarok is a lot more feature rich than xmms and uses gstreamer, which is 
generally considered better.

http://amarok.kde.org/

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[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 00:34, ash wrote:
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>  hi!
>  
>  On Friday 07 Jan 2005 10:27, Colin Walters wrote:
>  > In summary, I think if we just address a few minor things then
>  > totem/HelixPlayer could fulfill the role xmms plays now.
>  just a thought, but can't amarok be included as the default media player 
>  instead of xmms?
>  
>  amarok is a lot more feature rich than xmms and uses gstreamer, which is 
>  generally considered better. 
amarok seems like a candidate for Extra's but not core.  Totem and
HelixPlayer already ship with core and have a maintainer.  A replacement
for xmms just needs to be a simple music player.  For something more
fancy we already have RhythmBox.

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[ash]

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hi!

On Friday 07 Jan 2005 19:19, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
>  amarok seems like a candidate for Extra's but not core.  Totem and
>  HelixPlayer already ship with core and have a maintainer.  A replacement
>  for xmms just needs to be a simple music player.  For something more 
how about juk
then? http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/juk.html

i'm just trying to keep with default stuff than bringing a new package in. juk 
is a part of standard kde packages, whereas beep isn't. it'll be much easier 
to manage and maintain juk than beep. imo and i'm prolly wrong, too.

>  fancy we already have RhythmBox.
>
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[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 20:03 +0530, ash wrote:
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>  On Friday 07 Jan 2005 19:19, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
>  >
>  > amarok seems like a candidate for Extra's but not core.  Totem and
>  > HelixPlayer already ship with core and have a maintainer.  A replacement
>  > for xmms just needs to be a simple music player.  For something more
>  how about juk then? http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/juk.html
>  
>  i'm just trying to keep with default stuff than bringing a new package in. juk 
>  is a part of standard kde packages, whereas beep isn't. it'll be much easier 
>  to manage and maintain juk than beep. imo and i'm prolly wrong, too. 
Since this thread is about consistency of the open file dialog I don't
think Juk fits the bill either.  

>  
>  > fancy we already have RhythmBox.
>  >
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[Peter Backlund]

tor 2005-01-06 klockan 20:16 -0700 skrev Filip Sedivy:
>  Hello. I was just wondering if it would be possible to use the
>  same (default) "open file" dialog box for XMMS program as Firefox and other
> applications in FC3 in Gnome use. The current open file dialog box used with XMMS is
> pretty "ugly" and it would help XMMS be more polished and consistent with
> Fedora. XMMS menus could use the same theme also but I guess, I should address that to the
> XMMS developers, right? 
>  Just and idea, though. Thanks. 
There is a GTK2 port/fork of XMMS called Beep Media Player (as Bill
Nottingham pointed out), and it's being packaged for livna.org. If
you're interested in it, please help out with QA at

 http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54

/Peter Backlund