Today is the summer of code start day, and like every other excited summer of code student, I got drunk instead of working! I had a 6 pack of Magic hat, and now I have a mockup of what the now playing source will look like af the end of my project. The biggest difference between the final product and this, is that the final product will actually work.
Notice the buttons in the top right? Clicking will change the now playing source contents to last.fm, wikipedia, or back to your regularly scheduled programming. Pretty nifty right? If you’re interested, you can follow my work in written form here, or here (literally here, because I’ll be blogging about it), or in code form over here. You can actually already check out what I have so far, which is what you see above. It’s not that cool yet so I wouldn’t bother, but it’s going to get cool- so I would bother.
That’s all for today! And happy (belated) birthday Morrissey, you’re a cool 51 this year.
why not, in addition to those buttons, also add some context from lastfm and wikipedia to the regular now-playing pane? (i.e. the black area)
Would it be possible to hide the album cover in the left hand column when in this view?
It seems a little excessive to have the album art shown three times.
Like “Joshua Lock” has written, I think that in this view there are too may album arts displayed at the same time: one is enough.
Please get rid of the unnecessary ellipsizing
of titles etc (“Some Girls Are Bigger Th…”) -
there’s plenty of space to display the whole title here.
This is totally irrelevant to my project, but you’re right. I merged that fix into Banshee master today and you’ll see it in the next release!