usch;487915 Wrote: > > The color display is nice, but for me it hardly outweighs the loss of > the music information screen, title switcher, saver switcher, and RSS > news ticker.
You should follow Erland's work. I don't know about RSS, but he's been working hard on applet code that should address most of the expectations of current users of MIS, Title Switcher, and SaverSwitcher. usch;487915 Wrote: > > I was quite disappointed when I found out that all 3rd party > development has to be redone from scratch with the new players. Hopefully Logitech will at least 'relicense a bunch of the new player code (bug 14194)' (https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14194) so that it's easier both for old-timers like me to port code, and for new customers to create brand-new software for the new platform. Please vote for that bug if you want to see more 3rd-party extensions for the new players! BTW, it's not quite as bad as you suggest -- it's mostly things that either 1) have a user interface on the player or 2) try to intercept or change behavior that's no longer controlled by the server that need serious work. Some things were surprisingly easy to get working with Radio and Touch (like my SleepFade plugin), others only needed minor changes to work reasonably well (e.g., VolumeLock cannot prevent a volume change, but can quickly revert a change). But it's not simply "easy to convert over" as John wrote, either. :-/ -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AutoDisplay.html) 'BlankSaver' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/BlankSaver.html) 'ContextMenu' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/ContextMenu.html) 'FuzzyTime' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/FuzzyTime.html) 'KidsPlay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KidsPlay.html) 'KitchenTimer' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KitchenTimer.html) 'PlayLog' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) 'PowerCenter/BottleRocket' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html) 'SaverSwitcher' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html) 'SettingsManager' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html) 'SleepFade' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SleepFade.html) 'StatusFirst' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/StatusFirst.html) 'SyncOptions' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html) 'VolumeLock' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71637 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
