Re: [LinEAK-devel] improvement proposal

[Rob H. <ro...@ro...>]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 21:47 +0200, dAgeCKo wrote:
> Contunuing to my excursion threw lineak, I was thinking of that point:
> 
> here is an example, making things easier to understand (due to my poor
> english):
> 
> I use forward and backward media keys to go to the next or previous
> song from my media player. And this prints 'next song' or 'previous
> song'. But it would be better if it prints the title of the song.
> But actually this is not possible threw lineak because the config
> file expects text not commands.
> 
> How far would it be possible to allow the config file to declare
> commands for the text to print threw xosd ?
> 

That's something the media player should handle. The behavior of lineak,
printing the command issued, seems correct. Besides, I would much rather
have the command printed to the screen so that if something unexpected
happens, I can make sure it's a configuration issue or that I hit the
wrong key, not that the program is behaving in an unexpected way. But
truly, most linux media players have a plug-in, or are built, with the
ability to print the song title to the screen.

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