Chris wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I was working on a Idlebar-plugin for showing the current song mpd is 
> playing.
> I was wondering if it would be possible to bind keys to an 
> idlebar-plugin, so I can press [next] on my remote to let mpd jump to 
> the next song. Is this possible or do I have to code something like the 
> colorbutton-plugin?

This is all done in the event handler. You can choose what you want to 
handle, simply print event.name and see what come out when you press 
buttons.

> I really like the idea of having a good mpd-integration in a 
> media-center. It was one of the reasons I changed to freevo, only to 
> find some really bad plugins for that.

It's pretty easy to write a plug-in, that's Freevo greatest strength.

> I had a problem installing my idlebar-mpd-plugin. I took weather.py as 
> my template and copied my mpd.py to 
> '/usr/share/pycentral/python-freevo/site-packages/freevo/plugins/idlebar/' 
> with a link to 
> '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/plugins/idlebar/'. I activated 
> it in my local_conf.py. 

I don't think that you need to do this, if freevo works from 
/usr/share/pycentral/ then you plug-in should work too.

> Unfortunately freevo said it can't find 
> idlebar.mpd. So I put it in that __init__.py file temporary.
> What should I do in order to install it?

I think that you need to post you plug-in, as it is difficult to say 
what's wrong.

Duncan

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