I've been thinking about things we might want to do in terms of features to make Freevo more useful.
o Can we subclass the os.system() call to use an exception to trap LD_PRELOAD errors? This is without a doubt the most common problem I'm seeing on the lists. We could either wrap the os.system calls or just subclass (better) o A Message Center of some kind to be a catch all for general things like error messages from background apps, email, or whatever we decide to write a plugin for? I'm thinking the message centre could alert the user to things like problems recording, successful recordings, or even just put my daily calendar (from BSD calendar) up if I wrote something for it. Most of the set top boxes I've seen use a message centre to show information, and I can see how it could be useful. In terms of design, the message centre could have a normal menu with "headers" and when you click on one, we pop up a full screen viewer with a rounded box for the message text, and maybe "Delete" and "Save" I'm not thinking that this should be a full email client, but just a unified way to get information of various types to the user. I suppose someone could hypothetically add a full email client; I don't think it's a good idea from a user perspective, but the option could be there. I could even make an idlebar plugin to highlight when new information is available in the centre. Thoughts? Aubin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
