On 11.05.2010 05:09, Jonathan Gordon wrote:
Quick heads up to the changes which are probably coming to the skin
format to make everything easier.
1) tags with parameter lists will change to use '(' and ')' to mark
the ends of the list. e.g %V(label|x|y|width|height|font|fg|bg)
2) tags will no longer be able to add info to the end (E.g %Xda will
be changed to %Xd(a), %D1 to %D(1) )
Could we also change the | character to , or ;?
Maybe this change could also give us some sort of variadic parameters.
For instance I would like to see %Xd(a,b) which replaces %Xda%Xdb. Maybe
a different delimiter for normal and "repeater" params would improve
readability.
This will break all existing skins so I'm planning on making a script
to convert, but while this is happening, does anyone have any changes
they want made which cant be done without breaking compatibility? (e.g
change the tag letters or something?)
Albumart display tag (from %C to possibly %Cd). Currently a dirty hack
is needed to distinguish %?C and %C. Maybe we could also change the load
tag to be the conditional(i.e. %?Cl) which makes more sense to me.
Best regards.
