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thanks, i'll have to do that sometime – tehsagemaster, on August 14, 2008 20:48

i was just looking to have the last.fm main button features added to songbird, maybe thru and addon. i would love to basically have the ui of the last.fm app integrated to songbird instead of songbird linking and using the last.fm app separately. – tehsagemaster, on August 14, 2008 18:34

KIO Slaves are used in the KDE desktop environment. These slaves are protocols handlers that help kde applications have proper access to files over these protocols, for example, get files off of the server in your home. That server maybe a samba linux server, so the KIO smb slave will handle the communication for the KDE app as if it were looking at a directory. Another way of looking at it is, when you go to the open option in an application (KDE for ex.), it bring up a dialog box that shows access to the file structure and can access them files in those directories, the problem is network protocols are not seen unless there is support in that application for handling network protocols and that is where KIO slaves come in, they mount a directory into that dialog box and make the application think it is accessing a local file or directory. This whole process is similar in GNOME with Gnome-vfs (being discontinued), and now GIO/GVFS, which is being push to be cross platform. The only other alternative to these ways of handling network protocols is fuse, but that is usually installed by the user, and is not easy for someone that doesn't know how to do anything other that open up apps use the basic controls.

So my question is can this support for both KIO slaves (smb, ftp, etc), and GIO/GVFS be integrated into Songbird through addons. – tehsagemaster, on August 12, 2008 13:15

my idea is to have a button that slides out a window that is still attached to the mini player (sorta like a preview window). This windows will show for example if your in shoutcast, the windows will show the list of shoutcast streams and the genre tab list. Something similar to library, and webpages. Also, the list will go either above or below the mini bar depending on the position of the player on the monitor.

Hope the modified screenshots help.

got the latest .7rc, nice progress

i should've said as an addon, that would be better, because not everyone uses last.fm, same would go for a pandora addon, or any other type of addon, – tehsagemaster, on August 08, 2008 19:57