banshee-fleow-plugin

Hi,

The main goal for this project is to create a plugin for Banshee Music Player that will allow people to view their album cover images in 3D mode like Coverflow does it for iTunes. This is a basic description of fleow project. You can watch very short screencast of fleow in action (yes i do need better cam so please donate)

And this is an ordinary screenshot, with fleow embedded

This plugin is actually know to have long loading time on start-up depending on your collection size and you can feel disappointed with framerate of 2 per second - you may experience that feeling in certain circumstances - I really do hope to find a solution to this problem.

The tools used in the development are:

C# language
Mono .NET platform
Tao framework for OpenGL bindings
DevIL image library
GtkGLArea# widget
Banshee API

Following points seem to be the roadmap for fleow.

Install Banshee ;-)
Learn what is the difference between C# and C++
Learn some OpenGL
Tao framework for OpenGL bindings
Prepare standalone OpenGL rendering engine
Learn howto integrate the fleow engine with Banshee API as plugin
Release working version
Further optimizations and enchacements
Generate documentation with Doxygen

At the moment we are somewhere before point 7, however previous points have not been fully accomplished, not yet. Following diagram is to present how fleow plugin will probably work.

Source code is released under MIT licence and is available in the Subversion repository.