Exaile sound menu integration

Sun 28 November 2010
  • 装备 tags:
  • exaile
  • opensource
  • ubuntu
  • work published: true comments: true

Sound menu indicator was introduced in Ubuntu Maverick(10.10). User can control playback from this menu, and view current track information.

The control is based on mpris spec 2.0, which is a common specification of controlling media player with dbus. To enable sound menu support, media player should implement mpris 2.0, and register itself with libindicate.

So this week, I have been working on an exaile plugin to support sound menu and finally got a workable version.

Screenshot of exaile sound menu

The code repo can be found at github: https://github.com/sunng87/Exaile-Soundmenu-Indicator