Developing Guadeque
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:39 am
Hey I'm not really a coder or programmer but I was wondering what all it might take just to start writing C which is what I believe guayadeque is written in? What would I use as an ide and how would I browse the code? Is there access to any of this information, and also perhaps could this be in the wiki?
Maybe eventually this can be more of a community project and others can contribute to it by providing hacks or tweaks even if very simple? I'm mostly just curious and want to play around at coding something like Guayadeque, and maybe that will help me understand what I'd like to see it grow into in the future and what I really expect out of a music player.
Lately I realize Guayadeque is by far the most experienced program with music lovers in mind which actually handles large libraries, as other players either lack things like Album Artist, still. Or they are bulky where they should not be, or they lack customization in many areas, as well as most just cant handle a library over 10k tracks even when they boast that handling huge libraries is their main feature.
Guayadeque is number one by far, with probably Banshee running behind at number 2 which was closely tied with gmusicbrowser which has too many features that are useless or it doesn't understand how to just play music and even after tweaking every little thing it is still full of bugs and bulk and then can't handle a large library, then that R-box still wont do what it needs to do to be logical and future proof. Others, bulk, poorly written, run on java, too many bugs, not enough features, etc etc etc.
Are there any forks of Guayadeque out there?
I have many questions about the future of Guayadeque, as it now my number one choice over all.
Last question, would it be possible to perhaps 'fork' one of the 'Views' and then have guayadeque see views as sort of plug-ins where as we could write new ones and Guayadeque could use the new views for more advanced customization. If that makes sense. Sorry this is so long.
Maybe eventually this can be more of a community project and others can contribute to it by providing hacks or tweaks even if very simple? I'm mostly just curious and want to play around at coding something like Guayadeque, and maybe that will help me understand what I'd like to see it grow into in the future and what I really expect out of a music player.
Lately I realize Guayadeque is by far the most experienced program with music lovers in mind which actually handles large libraries, as other players either lack things like Album Artist, still. Or they are bulky where they should not be, or they lack customization in many areas, as well as most just cant handle a library over 10k tracks even when they boast that handling huge libraries is their main feature.
Guayadeque is number one by far, with probably Banshee running behind at number 2 which was closely tied with gmusicbrowser which has too many features that are useless or it doesn't understand how to just play music and even after tweaking every little thing it is still full of bugs and bulk and then can't handle a large library, then that R-box still wont do what it needs to do to be logical and future proof. Others, bulk, poorly written, run on java, too many bugs, not enough features, etc etc etc.
Are there any forks of Guayadeque out there?
I have many questions about the future of Guayadeque, as it now my number one choice over all.
Last question, would it be possible to perhaps 'fork' one of the 'Views' and then have guayadeque see views as sort of plug-ins where as we could write new ones and Guayadeque could use the new views for more advanced customization. If that makes sense. Sorry this is so long.