Ross Burtonhttp://www.burtonini.com/blogA potted account of Ross' lifeen60Ross BurtonContact Lookup Applet (Fame And Glory)computers/contact-lookup-applet-20040917http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/contact-lookup-applet-20040917The totally wonderful (some would even say "rad", but not me!) Ubuntu Linux became the first distribution I know of ... The totally wonderful (some would even say "rad", but not me!) Ubuntu Linux became the first distribution I know of to ship contact-lookup-applet this week, when WartyWarthog was released in preview form. This did tickle my funny bone, as Ximian/Novell paid for its development via a Bounty. I've been informed [updated, thanks Luis] it will be in Novell Linux Desktop (due "soon") and SuSe 9.2, and there are rumours it will be in FC3 too.

What more proof do you need that RPM-based distributions are inferior?

NP: Like Water For Chocolate, Common

]]>/computers2004-09-17T17:33:10ZSound Juicer 2 Mockupcomputers/sound-juicer/sj-20040917http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer/sj-20040917After a brief hacking sprint on contact-lookup-applet and Sound Juicer genre/profiles, I thought I'd have a quick play with my ... After a brief hacking sprint on contact-lookup-applet and Sound Juicer genre/profiles, I thought I'd have a quick play with my Sound Juicer 2 mockup. This is the latest screenshot:

I've merged the track numbers and extract status into a single column, and added an icon which will represent the currently playing or extracted track. The plan is to remove the extract progress popup and replace it with an icon indicating the current track and use the progress bar for more detailed progress, but I'm not really sure that this is a good idea. I'll also need some way of showing the currently playing track, maybe show a small "play" icon in the same place?

All comments welcome, but I am intent on turning SJ into a replacement for for the GNOME CD Player, so stop telling me I shouldn't!

Oh and Tigert, Jimmac, if you are reading: gnome-icon-theme needs stock_media-eject and stock_media-volume-mute. Eject should be easy to fit in with the other media icons, and mute is just the volume icon minus the sound waves (I've stolen from Totem which stole from Rhythmbox). Thanks! :)

NP: Spirit, Jewel

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