Hacking Update
I rewrote my nautilus-cd-burner patch last night, hopefully Bastien can help me fix the growisofs code which I deleted, and Alex won't find too many problems with it. Once this is in I can work on the UI for Rhythmbox CD writing.
My patches to Sound Juicer to make the metadata lookup async are looking good too, a small cleanup and they're done. I owe Bastien a beer for making Sound Juicer his pet project for 10 minute hacks, and fixing a serious number of bugs for me. Great work that man.
Mark Finlay has been talking about scanning software for GNOME. I'm interested in coding some of this up, as I have a scanner under my desk which only needs a suitable cable (I really must scrape together the money for this). My £0.02 on this topic:
- Abstract scan types make perfect sense for the basic UI, such as "Web Quality", "Printable" etc.
- Then have an Advanced button (well, disclosure widget), with resolution, brightness, contrast, etc sliders.
- I can't decide where rotate/mirror etc should go though. Probably in the main UI.
- I was also thinking of eye candy when selecting regions: fade (desaturate and lighten) any areas which are not going to be scanned.
