Tanja wrote: > I like to help a little with freevo2. I am not a professional programmer > and I cannot predict how much time I will have for it, but maybe there a > small (preferable simple ;-)) tasks, that I can start with.
sure, every help welcome and you did a good job before.
> * Porting the idlebar plugins from freevo1.7 to freevo2
>
> * Improve the genre menu, channel menu and the tv guide to show with a
> color code which programs are currently running, which are already over
> and which lie in the future. Freevo1.7 has that for some time now and I
> think that is a very helpful feature. I also would like to change the
> genre menu and the channel menu to start with a currently running
> program and not with the first program in the database.
>
> * The way the info for programs is shown at the moment seems not
> optimal, I would display only short infos, like name, title, subtitle,
> start and stop time in the info field in the tv guide menu.
> For extensive info like description I would like to have another screen
> which displays this. This screen would need to have a scrollable area
> for the description, because it is sometimes quite long. I tried to
> create such a thing in freevo1.7, but could not get the scrolling.
> Maybe one should make this "extensive info screen" a plugin, so the
> users who do have more infos for there programs can activate it and
> others can deactivate it. I personnally would like to have this as the
> default option for a program in the tv guide, even before the play option.
>
> * This is somewhat related to the above point. The info for a program
> should also be accesible from inside the genre and channel menu.
>
That are all good ideas but they will require some changes in the gui
code. When Jason finishes kaa.candy, I will do a reqrite of the whole
gui code again and all your work will be gone. So I suggest we keep
that on the list for later.
BTW Jason: I'm very busy at work until end of May and I also expect to
be busy on some weekends :( But after that I will have free time to
include kaa.candy. Do you think you can finish it by then?
> * Create a "browse by channel" plugin similar to the "browse by genre"
> plugin in the tv menu (I know there is already something like that in
> every program submenu but I would like to have such a thing also from
> the tvmenu)
I wanted to write: I have that here but not checked in, but it looks
it got lost. I guess I have it somewhere deep in my backups. :)
> (BTW when is old stuff removed from the database? I had the impression
> that everything that ever was filled in there is still there.)
It should after 7 days. Jason?
> * Also I could try to implement the "search for similar" action in the
> programs submenu. What did you plan there? Should it be the same as in
> freevo1.7?
I don't know 1.7 but "search for similar" sounds great.
> * Another thing, that I am very interested in, would be webradio. As far
> as I saw, that is not working yet. What do you plan there? Can I help
> somehow?
Sure, shouldn't be too hard. Maybe some tweaks to kaa.popcorn are
required to make it work like get artist updates. But a radio plugin
for the audio menu would be nice.
> What do you think? Which ones make sense at the moment? Which ones would
> be easy? Which ones would be more complicated? Maybe you would advice me
> to start with something else?
Search similar sounds like an easy start, you already know parts of
the code you need to access. Webradio is also a nice idea. And there
are also many FIXME in the freevo and kaa code. Some are hard to do,
that's why they are FIXMEs. For some I just remembered that I had to
do it and added a FIXME. But it is not that easy to detect which FIXME
is easy or not.
Dischi
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