[Alsaplayer-devel] Update and future direction

[Garett Shulman]

I wouldn't call the ui "miserable". Then again, I don't really use it 
all that much ;). I used a python binding to the api and pyqt to easily 
create a great custom interface for my wireless tablet. I wanted 
something that was completely obvious to anyone who sat in front of it 
and that was geared towards stylus-touchscreen control. The alsaplayer 
control api, python, and pyqt where the perfect solution. Using a python 
binding to the control api is also a great way to control alsaplayer 
with lirc. I think that focusing on the core/api is a great direction. 
-Garett

Andy Lo A Foe wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Very long time indeed :)
>
> I've begun cleaning up some long overdue patches. I'm looking to 
> release something soonish.
>  I've also been thinking of where to take the AlsaPlayer project. 
> Since having a fulltime day job and maintaining an OSS project don't 
> really mix well (unless your job *is* maintaining that OSS project) I 
> need to make some decisions for myself. If I look at the current state 
> I see:
>
> * A lightweight stable audio playback core.
> * A pretty good API to the core.
> * A miserable user interface.
>
> I started work on a GTK2 interface but after years of scripting and 
> Java coding I just don't find it interesting to write a GUI in C/C++ 
> against gtk2's API. So it dawned upon me, why not improve the API/CORE 
> and leave the GUI to seomeone else? I suck at it anyway. Or at least I 
> think I can do a much better job doing the UI in Python, Ruby or even 
> (gasp!) Java...
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards,
> Andy
>
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