What does it do?

This python plugin gives you a stylish full screen window usable for parties etc. Still in its early stages it currently enables:

• Pulsating hover effect
• Album art
• Smoothly animated progress bar
• Control: Play/pause/skip
• Scrolling by cursor position
• Queued tracks merged

How do I install it?

Easy! You can check out the latest source from google's repository and put it in your plugins directory like this:

$ svn checkout http://rhythmbox-fullscreen-plugin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ FullscreenView
$ mkdir -p ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins
$ mv FullscreenView ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins

Tested on Ubuntu 10.04. Reports have said earlier on to put the plugin in "~/.gconf/apps/rhythmbox/plugins". If nothing happens when you do the above, please locate your rhythmbox plugins directory, for instance be running "find ~ | grep rhythmbox"

Technical stuff

The plugin uses custom drawn Cairo widgets in a DrawableArea and idle callbacks for animations. Everything is therefore vector graphics. The code is currently rather messy and I expect to do a check up on that in the near future.

if you find an error, please run Rhythmbox from terminal with the following option:

$ rhythmbox -D FullscreenView