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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0002649 | MMW v4 | Install/Config | public | 2006-09-18 11:52 | 2006-10-26 11:48 |
| Reporter | jiri | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 2.5.4 | ||||
| Summary | 0002649: Configuration for Format plug-ins | ||||
| Description | Currently we have several types of plug-ins listed in Options dialog, but these are only WinAmp plug-ins, we don't list our Format plug-ins anywhere. Since our plug-ins are quite similar to WinAmp input plug-ins, I'd suggest to: 1. Rename Player\Input Plug-ins to Player\Format Plug-ins. 2. Keep the loaded input plug-ins listed there, but also list our Format plug-ins (all alphabetically listed). 3. Remove About button, keep Configure button that would show some configuration for our plug-ins (in case there's such dialog implemeted for give plug-in, otherwise the button would remain gray). Technical note: Format and Input plug-ins would only be mixed in the Options dialog, otherwise internally they remain a completely different solution. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Assigning to Rusty for a review and possible change of wording, please assign to Pavel then. |
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To avoid confusion, I would introduce a new name for our format plugins: 'Tagging Plugins'. That way the different between input plugins and format plugins is clear. Thus changes would be: 1. Add new entry for 'Tagging Plug-ins' immediately sub to 'Library' 2. Remove About button, keep Configure button that would show some configuration for our plug-ins (in case there's such dialog implemeted for given plug-in, otherwise the button would remain gray). Re-assigning to Jiri for comment since this is quite different from the original proposal. |
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To avoid confusion, I would introduce a new name for our format plugins: 'Tagging Plugins'. That way the different between input plugins and format plugins is clear. Thus changes would be: 1. Add new entry for 'Tagging Plug-ins' immediately sub to 'Library' 2. Remove About button, keep Configure button that would show some configuration for our plug-ins (in case there's such dialog implemeted for given plug-in, otherwise the button would remain gray). Re-assigning to Jiri for comment since this is quite different from the original proposal. |
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I possibly wasn't clear why to mix these two groups. Our formats plug-ins currently don't only do tagging, their whole set of functionality include: Tagging, Decoding and Encoding (each plug-in can implement only some subset of these functions). Therefore from users' perspective there's a very little difference between input and format plug-ins and so adding a new sheet would only make things more complicated for an average user. |
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Ok, so then lets follow your original suggestion except for 1. (i.e. keep the plugins called input plugins) since otherwise people will be confused how to use Winamp input plugins. |
