Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-06 Thread Marcin Bukat
What about the idea of using our FAT code in simulator? There was not complete patch somewhere on FS allowing to pass simulator disk image file as an argument and all access was done through our FAT driver. This would fit nicely into idea of testing framework. Marcin

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-06 Thread alex wallis
What about extending the aiff codec to play a wider variety of aiff files? I know rockbox supports playback of those files, but at the moment the files have to meet certain specific conditions in order to play. I have several files which for some reason rockbox doesn't like. I am not suggesting

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-06 Thread Amaury Pouly
What about the idea of using our FAT code in simulator? There was not complete patch somewhere on FS allowing to pass simulator disk image file as an argument and all access was done through our FAT driver. This would fit nicely into idea of testing framework. I wrote some code to do it (it

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-06 Thread Marcin Bukat
Another topic which comes back from time to time is vector graphic based UI engine. Porting librsvg + libxml + libart should be fairly easy on RaaA and in sim (where we can use malloc). Than we could judge if this is really feasible to have this on 'native' targets as well. There is one more

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-06 Thread Robert Bieber
On 03/06/2011 03:57 PM, Marcin Bukat wrote: There is one more *huge* area where rockbox is terribly lacking - documentation. There were some talks about inline documentation for rockbox (using doxygen for example). Generally the feedback was positive about such idea but mr.someone is very lazy

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-06 Thread alex wallis
On 06/03/2011 18:59, Mike Giacomelli wrote: What about extending the aiff codec to play a wider variety of aiff files? We already support something like 2 dozen AIFF formats. If you want to add another I don't mind, but I think this is more like a few hours work, not a GSOC project. aah,

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-06 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:44:58PM +0100, Thomas Martitz wrote: * Redesigning the db to allow more flexible queries and to be more efficient (and because the current db is practically unmaintained), possibly starting as a pc app Maybe. We'll need to provide a lot of details before an

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-06 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 05:00:04PM +0700, Dave Hooper wrote: Multiple-select in file browser, playlist browser, etc. Enables user to move a number of files around in one go (particular useful in playlist browser imho). Could be done alongside Steve's suggestion perhaps. Along same lines,

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-06 Thread Jonathan Gordon
On 7 March 2011 08:48, Frank Gevaerts fr...@gevaerts.be wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 05:00:04PM +0700, Dave Hooper wrote: Multiple-select in file browser, playlist browser, etc. Enables user to move a number of files around in one go (particular useful in playlist browser imho). Could be

possible gsoc idea: playlist resume framework project

2011-03-06 Thread Jonathan Gordon
Disclaimer: this isnt really fleshed out so feel free to add more points. One very annoying thing with rockbox is that there are 3(or more) different playlist types which dont all work the same way (especially in regard to restarting them). IIUC bookmarks only works with file based dirplay (as

Re: Database and bookmarks/playlists

2011-03-06 Thread Jonathan Gordon
On 6 March 2011 11:38, Frank Gevaerts fr...@gevaerts.be wrote: Hi, There are currently some limitations when using the database, mainly involving bookmarks and playlists. There's the idea of possibly having a gsoc project to look into these and fix them. In order to make that possible, we

Re: Database and bookmarks/playlists

2011-03-06 Thread Dave Hooper
If a search-path-type thing was used, wouldn't your playlist change when you added more music by artist Foo?

Re: Database and bookmarks/playlists

2011-03-06 Thread Jonathan Gordon
On 7 March 2011 17:15, Dave Hooper d...@beermex.com wrote: If a search-path-type thing was used, wouldn't your playlist change when you added more music by artist Foo? yes, but that happens with dirplay playlists now anyway. start a folder, then connect usb and add/remove files and there is a