Metadata display? In the playlist? Loaded in a background thread so it doesn’t kill the UI? Suits you sir!

Dirty hack? Knocked together in an hour or so you say? Indeed :D

Things are looking good though, check the SS!

The way I read weblogs — now in Bloglines rather than a feed reader — is to flick through them and open a ton of browser windows with the interesting stories in. Then I can read the interesting posts at my leisure over the day.

This, of course, relies on the browser not crashing. This morning I had around twenty posts open on my desktop, just waiting for my perusal. They were open in Firefox. Which then crashed, seemingly for no reason. All the windows lost, a moment of frustration that we all must know. Why doesn’t Firefox remember what windows and tabs are open? Then I could just restart the browser and back they would come.

New Google toy: search your desktop looks pretty interesting to me. It will search Outlook emails, Word documents and so on. A first salvo by Google to take on WinFX?

Comments on how well it works? I would try it, but I doubt it works on Linux…

Report from the field, 3:

Mostly pretty good news.

• Tab for library added, no code behind it yet though
  
• Improvements to gstreamer data implementation, need to figure out useful data for library.
  
• Seek bar that reflects position, but you can’t use to seek.
  
• Expander to show/hide tabs.
  
• Repeat function.
  
• Playing crashes at end of a song freezes when you double click to choose a song doesn’t pause properly seems to work!
  
• Completed conversion to Glade, now using Glade completely and adding features.
  

/end

To remove fear that my digital camera would not work in Linux which was expressed by some (=p), my current a previous screenshot shows the extremely difficult process I have to use to import photos. In summary, it is something like:

1. Plug in camera, switch on camera
   
2. Click Import Photos on my desktop
   
3. Click the Import button
   

Step 1 is probably the most difficult bit — as the cable is always lost somewhere under the paper on my desk. I’m not sure how this process differs from Windows, probably not by much (Steps 2 and 3 I’m thinking about here, rather than the finding of the cable!).