luciferin said:
This would be amazing, but I'm not sure how simple it would be to do. You'd have to run a flash website in the popup. I've been looking for something similar to PandoraMan for OS X on linux, if someone could do this it would fit perfectly.

well how was the last.fm one built?

searayman said:
luciferin said:
This would be amazing, but I'm not sure how simple it would be to do. You'd have to run a flash website in the popup. I've been looking for something similar to PandoraMan for OS X on linux, if someone could do this it would fit perfectly.

Although you couldn't do things like right-click it to pause, skip, etc. like the last.fm applet, unless I'm mistaken, you could modify the meebo applet to use the URL https:// www.pandora.com/radio/tuner_8_1_0_0_pandora_mini.swf and set it to 640*250. That would just be the Pandora mini player.
Unfortunately, it couldn't actually control the player like last.fm (:/), and last I checked, Pandora doesn't have an API like last.fm (would be awesome, though.)

P.S.: Listening to Pandora right now :)

luciferin said:
Edit: Yup, it'll work now. Look for a release in an hour or two. I'm just going to make it look pretty and iron out a few quirks.

Cool stuff man! I'll glad test it whenever you're ready.

luciferin said:
Huh, it works absolutely fine for me.. Can you access and play the Pandora website in your firefox/mozilla browser? Maybe you don't have flash installed?

No, flash works fine and so does Pandora in Firefox. =(

asomething said:
No, flash works fine and so does Pandora in Firefox. =(

hey you probably need to do this...
Look at this thread and at post #9578 by dskw...

Link

malept said:
It would be interesting if this could work with the python bindings for swfdec (FOSS flash library).

I just tried it out, swfdec unfortunately doesn't work with Pandora's player. Otherwise it would be possible, just make new dependencies for the swfdec and pyswfdec libraries.

searayman said:
so shoudl i try installing it manually? or something else?

Did you try using the instructions that I suggested. I too had a problem with both the Digg applet and this new Pandora applet...
I followed the instructions found from this thread and it works fine now.

isaac_j87 said:
Link

Look at post #9578 by dskw

luciferin said:
The truth is that it's not a big issue right now. For some reason our developer community hasn't really adopted distributing applets in the a manner where drag and drop would be applicable. I'm not saying this to complain, but mostly because I've been searching for an applet to use to try and sort this problem for the last few hours and can't find any. We've just taken to putting everything in different branches.

Well... I just tested with with awn-extras from moonbeams branch.
He was kind and took this *unstable" applet.

It seems to be a server error:

"Were having unexpected technical difficulties" bla bla...

If something is unstable it must be within an unstable branch or separate downloads.

Just about software quality and AWNs reputation... :-)

luciferin said:
I believe this is a bug in AWN. You have to install into /usr/lib/awn/applets/ manually. Running this command on your system should fix it.

mike@mike-desktop:~$ sudo cp -R ~/.config/awn/applets/pandora/* /usr/lib/awn/applets
[sudo] password for mike:
cp: target `/usr/lib/awn/applets' is not a directory
mike@mike-desktop:~$

plunn said:
If something is unstable it must be within an unstable branch or separate downloads.

I think the reality is that awn-extras trunk is the unstable branch and we shouldn't propagate any other ideas. As the mandate of awn-extras was explained to me it is meant to be a monolithic collection of all awn applets - someone please correct me if I am wrong.

Personally I think it would be nice if someone would create a branch, develop a picky set of criteria and put the stable/finished (whatever that might mean) applets in there. Then packagers could have the choice of which branch to use... and not be left in the situation of either packaging them all or trying to sort out which ones meet a certain criteria. But that's really a idea for another thread some other day... :-)

moonbeam said:
Personally I think it would be nice if someone would create a branch, develop a picky set of criteria and put the stable/finished (whatever that might mean) applets in there. Then packagers could have the choice of which branch to use... and not be left in the situation of either packaging them all or trying to sort out which ones meet a certain criteria. But that's really a idea for another thread some other day... :-)

Well, this is up to our devs including you to make a judgement about, stable or not after a "living" thread about a certain applet and community testing/discussions.

I don't think its possible to have exact criteria s.

Awn-extras trunk must be clean from "unstable" applets.. IMHO :-)

luciferin said:
I hardly think a server error makes the applet unstable. However, if you let me know what the problem you're having is I will gladly try to fix it.

This is what I get

I also like threads about a specific applet with a first presentation, its easier for a community to find out how to test.
Also latest update within the first post. Just my opinion :-)

Thanks !

luciferin said:
Added information to my first post. I'll also update it if-/when-ever the applet is updated.

It might be an idea to do one of two things the _first_ time the applet is run.

1) Popup providing a link to the pandora.com website and explanation that many parts of the world a no longer able to access pandora.

2) Just open up a browser and direct them to the pandora site.

luciferin said:
Try adding:

luciferin said:
/usr/lib/firefox

luciferin said:
to /etc/ld.so.conf then run

luciferin said:
sudo ldconfig

OK i tried all this and added it but still have the same exact problem...

anymore ideas?

luciferin said:
Why is this a bug? ;) As far as I'm concerned it should be considered public domain. I will readily admit that it is a derivative work of a derivative work; I can take very little credit for it.. Not to say that I'm not willing to maintain it if needed/desired, but no one should feel like they'll offend me if they patch and or alter it in any way (and feel free to give yourself credit).

Just so people aren't confused, the reason why we need to know what you license the applet under is because in several countries (such as the US), if you don't specify a license or explicitly make it public domain, then it is "All Rights Reserved", under the author's copyright, by default.

@Luciferin: Could you state that in the bug, for posterity's sake? Also, you should also state which work the pandora applet is a derivative of. It will help us figure out which license is most appropriate for the applet. Offhand, I'd guess that it's a derivative of the lastfm applet, but I have zero experience with either code nor have I actually looked at either codebase.

searayman said:
what ever link pandora applet was using now doesn't work anymore.

Could you file a bug? It seems they change the URL periodically and then someone who is in the US needs to determine the new correct one and push the changes.