fre 2005-01-28 klockan 08:20 -0500 skrev Jeff Spaleta: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:28:29 -0800, Jamie Zawinski <jwz@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >1) The fact that it does not have a "double size" option is pretty > > much a showstopper, because I can't read a damned thing on that > > sub-postage-stamp-sized window. > > I Personally don't consider this a showstopper, but it would be > interesting to know if the bmp developers have this feature or similar > functionality on their development roadmap. Right-click the clock area, or click the down-arrow in the upper left corner of the player for a context menu. > > > > 2) Perhaps I could fix this by wasting hours finding a less horrid > > theme to use but A) in five minutes of clicking and googling, I > > didn't see any easy-to-find collection of BMP themes, and > > B) I'd really really rather claw out my eyes than dig through > > those anyway. (Can someone recommend one that isn't totally > > 'l33t and awful?) > > bmp's website has a menu entry for skins here's the url > http://www.sosdg.org/~larne/w/Skins > I think bmp is designed to use most if not all of the available xmms > themes out there. So pick your fav xmms theme and drop it into bmp's > Skins directory. And the 'default is crap' issue is a red herring, > because "if" its going to be re-packaged for core, I'm sure the > bluecurve xmms theme core is now using would be used for bmp... which > works just fine for bmp from what i can tell. Yes, it works fine with the Bluecurve xmms skin. There is an environment variable that lists additional directories to look for skins in, which conveniently contains /usr/share/xmms/Skins in the livna.org package (through an /etc/profile.d/ file), so that the BC skin can be used immediately. Same goes for the Industrial skin, from ximian- artwork. > > > > 3) and this may be related to "1: can't read the window", I couldn't > > figure out how to play an Icecast stream at all. xmms has > > "Play Location" on the menu, BMP does not. Perhaps if I could > > read the window, the answer would be obvious, but I can't so it's > > not. > > At the moment this is available functionality in the playlist window, > as an 'add' option. We'd have to peek into bmp development discussions > to see if there are plans and interest to place this functionality > back into the > > > > > 4) "BMP" is a monumentally stupid name (hey, let's name the MP3 > > player "JPEG"!) and "beep-media-player" is both dumb and too much > > typing. Well, if you run a reasonably modern shell such as bash or zsh, you could type "be" and then press tab to automatically complete to "beep- media-player". You may need to supply a few additional letters, if you have more than one binary in your $PATH beginning with "be". /Peter
