Towards a common CDDB info UI, starting with kscd.
Richard Lärkäng
nouseforaname at home.se
Mon Jan 3 21:06:38 GMT 2005
Hi!
On Monday 03 January 2005 21.07, Shaheed wrote:
> > If you haven't, you might want to check out
> > http://www.freedb.org/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=38
> > which is some guidelines for freedb support, most of it is taken care of
> > by libkcddb, but some parts apply to kscd.
>
> Yep, read that before I started coding, but this page is mostly more
> relevant to configuration/messaging than data. I took particular note of
> the other specs for data: I will address confguration later if you don't
> beat me to it!
Yeah, mostly mentioned it because of the two suggestions I wrote later.
About the configuration, I think all of it is done except for the ability to
set the cgi-path for HTTP access.
> > Also, the genre should be possible to edit freely, I guess setting the
> > editable-property to true would be enough.
>
> I understand this is part of the spec, but I actually like the
> kaudiocreator-enforced set, at least for now, since it prevents stupid
> typos.
But if you set it to editable I think (not sure) that you'll get completion on
the entries that are already there.
> > And one last thing, the lineedit for changing the year would probably
> > make more sense as a spinbox instead.
>
> The range of dates seems too wide for a convenient spinbox (nearly one
> hundred years of recordings, right?). For now, I just added a line-edit
> with input mask.
Yeah, but you're still able to edit a spinbox just like a lineedit, and also
get the possibility to change years with the mouse, I can't see how that
would be bad.
> Thanks, Shaheed
Richard
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