[xine-bugs] [ xine-Bugs-1181649 ] Interface in gxine could use some work

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Bugs item #1181649, was opened at 2005-04-12 18:31
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Status: Open
>Resolution: Out of Date
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Chris Lord (cwiiis)
Assigned to: Darren Salt (dsalt)
Summary: Interface in gxine could use some work

Initial Comment:
Parts of the gxine interface could really use some work
- It doesn't render correctly at all on small screens,
and custom icons are used in places where the GTK stock
icons could be used.

I work on OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus and GPE - Three
projects related to running Linux on PDAs. I've
customised gxine somewhat so that the interface is a
bit nicer (imho) and renders better at lower resolution
(e.g. 240x320).

This is a screenshot of old gxine at 240x320:
http://handhelds.org/scap/port.31252.png

Screenshots of modified gxine at 240x320:
http://handhelds.org/scap/port.21837.png
http://handhelds.org/scap/port.21993.png

Although this patch was written primarily for PDAs, I
actually prefer this altered interface on my desktop
too. All changes (I think) I've made, I added to the
Changelog. This patch applies to gxine 0.4.1, as it was
the latest release tarball on the site (I didn't think
of using CVS).

I plan on continuing this work and adding the following
features:
- Volume control pop-up, rather than slider
- Replace Play/Pause/Fast-forward/Stop buttons with
Prev/Play-pause/Next
- Fix title-bar showing file name (I seem to have
broken it?)
- Make the web-browser plug-in a configure option,
rather than disabling it altogether
- Add proper subtitles and audio language menus
- Touch up various dialogs/menus slightly

It would be nice if this patch was included in future
versions of gxine, however, if you don't like it, I
will continue to maintain it in OpenEmbedded, seperately.

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Comment By: Darren Salt (dsalt)
Date: 2005-04-13 20:24

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0.4.3 is the current release version; xinehq.de needs to be
updated :-|

Your patch needs to be split up and some things (info bar
removal, for one) need to be made optional, possibly at
run-time. Most of the changes will be rejected wrt 0.4.3 -
no menu rearrangement, for example - but stand a chance of
acceptance for CVS HEAD (which will become 0.5.0).

For the GTK+2.6 stock media icons in 0.4.3, configure with
--disable-gtk-compat and add -DUSE_GTK_STOCK_MEDIA to CFLAGS.
(CVS HEAD requires GTK+2.6.)

Improved icons may be accepted, preferably with SVG- or
Gimp-format source (depending on the icon content).


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