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		Analog VU meter plugin
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 This is development release, so quite much of the work 
is still unfinished, or not started at all..
 If you like this plugin, then please send me feedback,
comments, patches, etc. Also what I need is artwork
for skins, so mail me if you would like to help with
that.

 If you have problems starting xmms after installing
this plugin, then please try to run xmms from terminal 
window, and it should give somekind of debug information
(most likely you forgot to install skin directories).
 And if xmms still keeps crashing, and you can not disable
plugin, then edit file: ~/.xmms/config, and remove
libvumeter.so from line starting with: enabled_vplugins= 

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Installing from sources |
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Global installation (root privileges required):
 ./configure
 make
 make install
 mkdir /usr/share/xmms/VU_Meter_skins/
 cp -R skins/* /usr/share/xmms/VU_Meter_skins/

Local installation:
 ./configure
 make
 mkdir -p ~/.xmms/VU_Meter_skins
 cp -R skins/* ~/.xmms/VU_Meter_skins/
 cp src/.libs/libvumeter.so ~/.xmms/Plugins/Visualization/

* Note.. if you have default skins from version 0.8 or earlier,
  please remove them, and use new skins from this package

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Requirements |
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 * Xmms 		(>= 1.2.9)
 * Gdk & Gtk  		(>= 1.2.10)
 * Gdk-pixbuf 		(>=   0.21)

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Known bugs/problems |
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 * Plugin tries to dock to iconified windows, problem
   with external docklist functions (?)

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TODO                |
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 * Skin editor / possibility to change skin options
 * Alpha transparency for overlay image
 * Plugin seems to process sound faster than soundeffect
   plugins (delay option to processing routine?)
 * Bass indicator, or something like that
 * Decent homepages and more skins
 * Error handling needs improvements:
   o if skindir is missing, whole xmms is shut down [
     alternative would be segfault, but that's not
     very nice :( ]
   o include default skin within program itself, so
     that skin directory is not mandatory
 * Improved autotools scripts 
   o Installation to user specified directory
   o Automatic installation of skins

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Pekka Harjamki
analogvu@mcfish.org
