Xfce Wiki

GTK3 transition

• Use GtkOverlay for (fullscreen-)play-controls?
• Draw the GtkOverlay player controls with cairo
  • Fix GtkOverlay staying atop the gst-video-overlay in Gtk3.6
  • Add padding around the playbuttons (they're currently cut off at the bottom)
  • Add fade-out when hiding > Impossible because transparency doesn't work
  • Make the GtkOverlay semi-transparent and rounded > Impossible because transparency doesn't work
• Replace checkboxes with GtkSwitches in the Preferences
• Consider using GtkActions for a lot of functionality: http://whyareyoureadingthisurl.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/gtkaction-howto-and-why/
• Current bugs
  • Closing the Preferences dialog spews a lot of warnings
  • Using the Save Playlist dialog works, but also shows lots and lots of warnings.
  • Popup menus (playlist menu) show up a great distance from their widget.
  • Play/Pause icons in playlist aren't properly symbolic
    • Doesn't seem to be possible, swapped back to non-symbolic in playlist
  • Switching to fullscreen-mode via the “f” key sometimes fails (shows video in windowed size, rest of the screen is blacked out) > trying to make it reproducible
  • Not happening anymore..? Playing a DVD with gst1.0 errors out with “GStreamer backend error: The stream is in the wrong format.”

General

• Speed up subtitle-loading by/and jump/ing back 3sec after setting subtitles
• Should we move the plugins to a section in the Preferences dialog (as previously suggested by Simon)?
• Improve menubar
  • Per http://paste.ubuntu.com/6019850/, we have restructured the menubar as below.
  • Media
    • The application's 'File' menu, contains the following items: Open, Open (Network) Location, Recent Menu, Save Playlist, CD/DVD, Quit
  • Playback
    • Previously the 'Edit' menu, contains the following items: Repeat, Shuffle, Show/Hide Playlist
    • Should we also add additional playlist controls here (with customizable keyboard accelerators) (as suggested by Simon)?
  • DVD
    • This menu appears when a disc is being played. It was originally in the playlist widget.
  • Audio
    • The same old 'Audio' menu, contains the following items: Audio Track (previously Languages), Volume Up/Down/Mute
  • Video
    • A refocused 'View' menu, now containing the following items: Fullscreen, Aspect Ratio, Subtitles
  • Tools
    • A new 'Tools' menu, currently contains: Plugins, Preferences
    • We can extend the plugin API to allow adding menu items to this menu.
  • Help
    • Your usual 'Help' menu, without the Help… we need documentation! Current items: Report a bug (NEW!), About

Playlist

• Add total playtime to playlist
  • Seems hard/impossible for video-files, do-able for audio-files

Documentation

• Get on with it