XMMS Bar for SuperKaramba

XMMS Bar for SuperKaramba

This is a useful SuperKaramba theme for those who constantly listen to music while they work. This is a bar that displays your XMMS playlist and provides basic controls and play status. And it autohides when not in use.

Basically, the idea is that you move your mouse pointer to the edge of the screen, and XMMS Bar pops out. Then you can scroll through your playlist with the scroll wheel on your mouse, click on a song to choose it, and hit play. Other basic controls are provided, as well as a "time remaining" display.

So now you don't have to constantly stop your work to find XMMS in the taskbar, pop it up, find your song, play it, etc. Just move your mouse to the left edge of the screen and choose your favorite song, then it automatically disappears again!

The secondary reason for creating this is to provide an example of several of the new functions I have added to SuperKaramba recently, including:

changeText()
changeTextColor()
changeTextFont()
changeTextSize()
getting mouse scroll wheel data in widgetClicked()

Also, this is a good example of how to use python elements to enhance a regular theme and how to mix python with a regular theme successfully.

You need xmmsctrl installed to use this properly. You might already have it, if not you can find it at:

http://user.it.uu.se/~adavid/utils/

Enjoy! Comments appreciated.


Credits:

Some of the graphics are a super-modified version of the "fiRe" theme for XMMS by ?

The status bar and other simple elements for the .theme portion are adapted from xmms.theme by ?

The rest, including the xmmsbar.py is by me

0.2:

Fixed a bug for small playlists.

0.3:

Really fixed the playlist bug.
Made the auto-hide occur a lot fast.