Custom Context Browser Sections Patch

[T.R.Shashwath]

It's kinda unstable. It randomly decides to crash, dump a backtrace and then 
go on as usual. I've sent in the backtrace, along with some console dumps.

Shash

On Tuesday 20 June 2006 09:17, Bradley Pesicka wrote:
> As stated in #amarok, I have been working on adding custom context
> browser sections to Amarok.
>
> The attached tarball contains the patch file, and several scripts I
> wrote while working on this.
>
> To install, patch the svn source (revision 553177) from the multimedia
> directory
> move amarok.rb to ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/
> move all other directories to ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/scripts
>
> This patch makes the following changes:
>
> - Disables the internal context browser sections for the tracks.
> - Adds the following dcop commands to contextbrowser:
>     void addCustomSection(QString name)
>     void removeCustomSection(QString name)
>     void setCustomSection(QString section,QString contents)
>     void setCustomSectionTitle(QString section,QString title)
>     void setCustomSectionContext(QString section,QString context)
> - Renders the sections up to 3 per row, in non-collapsable boxes. The
> bottom of the each of the sections in a row all line up.
> - Adds new categories to the script manager:
>     Context Browser
>
>     |-Home
>     |-Tracks
>     |-Streams
>     |-Podcasts
>
> Known issues:
> - Covers will not be shown for anything - I never got around to
> modifying how the covers are stored in the cache or triggering the
> creation of smaller versions of the cover  from a script.  The song info
> section also does not have an update link because of this, and because I
> didn't get around to that either.
> - It is likely there are still some problems with stability, mostly race
> conditions.  If you have a fix for one of these, please send me a patch.
> - Lack of scripts. I have created 7 scripts for use with this, plus the
> library file.  I would really like more scripts to be created.
> - Some sections, expecially the last.fm wiki, can take up large amounts
> of a row.  If there is a good way to set the maximum size that an
> element can be, please let me know. I tried to use max-width in one
> place, but that does not seem to be working.
> - Seperating the sections on the same row is done rather haphazardly at
> the moment.  It works, but it does not look very good.
> - Some of the scripts use a caching mechanism to speed up content
> generation. That cache never expires.
> - I don't know if the scoring/rating works or not. I have the dynamic
> collection patch that may affect it and don't feel like removing it.
>
> Eventually I would like to see all the content in the context browser
> (home, podcast, streams, etc.) generated in scripts.  I find that
> scripts are very flexible and are a large part of what makes Amarok
> wonderful.
>
> I would appreciate any questions, comments, suggestions, bug fixes, etc.
> that you have.

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