"Upcoming Events"-widget improvement

Rick W. Chen stuffcorpse at archlinux.us
Fri Oct 8 23:38:35 CEST 2010


On 08 Oct 2010 14:13 +0200, Johannes Helmuth:
> On 10/08/2010 01:54 PM, Rick W. Chen wrote:
> > On 08 Oct 2010 12:25 +0200, Johannes Helmuth:
> >   
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I am very new to amarok developement but I really must admit I love this
> >> player because of it's widgets and organization.
> >>
> >> I would like to propose an improvement to the Upcoming Events widget
> >> which fetches Events from last.fm:
> >> It would be cool to let the user limit the results to a certain area
> >> (city, state, country) for the matches being fetched.
> >>
> >> Is there already something proposed like that?
> >>
> >> cheers
> >> Johannes
> >>     
> > Yep, I've been working on this. In the UI it will be called "Favourite
> > Venues" which allows you to select particular venues on Last.fm and show
> > their upcoming events, in addition to ones from the current playing
> > artist.
> >
> > Other features include a calendar that highlights the dates of all the
> > events in the applet, and a map widget for their locations. A planned
> > feature for the future is instead of specifying venues, you can just
> > select an area within some radius on the map and track events in it.
> >
> >   
> is there a ticket in bugzilla for this? something to contribute?

Not yet :) By contribute do you mean in code? If so, after I finished
the foundations of this first. Chances are there will be many areas in
which it can be improved.

-- 
    Rick


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