I’ve made a few improvements to the UI of bluefunk. You can see them in the new screenshot to your right.

The control buttons now have images as I worked out how to do it. In Gtk this is a little long winded, again because of the flexibility of the toolkit. You can basically put anything you like onto a button. This means that you have to build the image/label combination yourself, put it into another widget — because the button can only have one widget inside it — and then tell the button to display that widget. A little non-intuitive to say the least!

Party like it’s, ehm, about 1998 I guess — Dabs just sent me an advert for a huge 256K compact flash card! A mistake, me thinks. However, the card could be useful for my camera, and it’s cheap. (assuming they really mean 256MB!)

Talking of the camera, I really should get round to putting some photos up here. It is a new camera, so don’t be too harsh on me. It would be nice to be able to stick the photos up here though, save me having to email them to people. Bit of python should sort it; does anyone have any reccomendations for good, simple gallery webapps?

Well I decided to call my mp3 player app bluefunk. I’ve been shifting it over to use the MVC model used in GTK, so now the playlist is stored as a model that is displayed in the playlist treeview. It’s quite nice in that I don’t have to convert between playlist and treeview internal representations any more because changes to the playlist automatically show up in the treeview. The program is also more stable now. It’s all quite nice. I still need to find a nice C# mp3 tag library, though; if anyone knows one could they tell me.

And further, the “You have unused icons on your desktop” balloon that just won’t stop bugging me right now. I only have six icons on my desktop, for crying out load. And it puts an icon in the system tray! Go away, annoying things….

One of the first things I do when I install Windows is to turn the sounds off. Quite why there are so many of the damn things I’m not sure. I don’t really need some noise to tell me that a program has crashed: I’m either looking at the screen and will see, or I’m not looking at the screen and so don’t care. (The main reason, of course, is just that they interrupt my music though.)