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Iguleder · Posted: Wed 21 Jul 2010, 04:50 Post subject:

Me neither, but plain GTK is the only way to get a tray icon.

I think you I can package it with a launcher (/usr/bin/pmusic):

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Ok, I make an updated Pmusic, when I get the tray-app pet, and make it available from the main post.

Great deal Smile

Sigmund

disciple · Posted: Wed 21 Jul 2010, 05:25 Post subject:

Iguleder · Posted: Wed 21 Jul 2010, 05:39 Post subject:

I tried that approach ... but it's not user-friendly. As far as I know the JWM tray buttons are not used for minimizing ... AND, you can't change their tooltip/icon dynamically. Plus, you can't add or remove them dynamically, unless you want some funky disco party of flashing window managers Very Happy

/usr/bin/pmusic:

disciple · Posted: Wed 21 Jul 2010, 05:55 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Wed 21 Jul 2010, 06:03 Post subject:

Iguleder · Posted: Wed 21 Jul 2010, 06:10 Post subject:

We could have flying pink dinosaurs that say "woof woof" on the welcome screen that hand you heart-shaped marshmallows in 3D. Yeah, that's right.

I think your approach is just soooo complicated and confusing. The quick launch buttons are there for 2 things:
- To launch
- To do it quickly and easily

Your approach makes them open-close-minimize-wuzzup-dude-buttons and that's bad. And the normal user doesn't know how to remove that button in case he doesn't want it. The tray icon is there only when pmusic runs, that's the way it works with any application that minimizes to the tray. That's familiar. That's friendly.

btw: 12 MB? are you sure? That's kinda impossible.

disciple · Posted: Wed 21 Jul 2010, 06:25 Post subject:

Except flying pink dinosaurs aren't very useful Smile

disciple · Posted: Wed 21 Jul 2010, 06:31 Post subject:

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2462 Location: Ontario

I am using luci pup 209 frugal install
I tested the pmusic -a option
I CD to /root/puppy-reference/audio . I selected all files in
directory with Rox Filer and used xclipboard to transfer paths to terminal
and it worked as expected.

Iguleder · Posted: Thu 22 Jul 2010, 05:04 Post subject:

Here's a tray icon PET compiled on Lupu 503, only for 1.0.2 because it has a modified /usr/local/pmusic/pmusic.

Have fun Wink

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

iguleder
I have added pmusic_tray to the main post.
Seems to work ok in Puppy-4.3.1 as well

Sigmund

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

don570
Thanks for great feedback.

1.)
To allow spaces in filename from terminal you can
--> "song with space"
--> 'song with space'
--> song\ with\ space
This is a common way to handle spaces in terminal

2.)
I don't think the idea of filtering non-songs is good. This is a nice way to override the gui-filter, and forces pmusic to TRY to play a chosen song. The filter in Pmusic is based on filename extensions, while the engine (ffmpeg) looks for headers/stream info.

3.)
Since I don't want to filter songfiles from other files in non-gui mode (at this stage) 'pmusic -a *' will add all kinds of files. To do what you intend you can use this command:

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2462 Location: Ontario

Here's the method that I used to test each special character.
I tried to be consistent.
1) used luci209
2) started with a new playlist each time I tested a filename
3) renamed 2barks.wav each time
4) added the filename to playlist using
right mouse button click and choosing
'Add to pmusic playlist'
This executed the script