I am the other Rhythmbox GSoCer and wanted to give an update on my progress and get some feedback. I am working on the contextual information panel (proposal is at http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~jiacona/soc/rhythmbox-proposal.pdf). The first thing I ran into is that the plugin interface does not have enough flexibility in where to add UI.
What I have done is made a new area available where widgets can be added. The image at http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~jiacona/soc/plugin-right-sidebar.png shows the existing areas (SHELL_UI_LOCATION_MAIN_BOTTOM, SHELL_UI_LOCATION_MAIN_TOP, SHELL_UI_LOCATION_SIDEBAR) as well as the new area -- SHELL_UI_LOCATION_RSIDEBAR. I have already added the bindings and made it so that the right sidebar is only visible when it has something in it. I am currently working on making the position persistent (like the left sidebar). What I was wondering is if anyone sees any value in extending the flexibility of where UI can be added even more. As it is, add_widget() can only append widgets to the bottom of an area. I was thinking that it might be useful to be able to add widgets to the top or bottom of an area. This is just something I thought of that might be useful that would be pretty simple to implement while I am already tinkering around in the area. Regards, John Iacona _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
