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New stuff added to the ruby-wmii community page (yes, this is a wiki, *hint*) and yet another nail in WIMP's (Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointing) coffin...

Nathan Howell emailed me that his ruby-wmii plugins are ready for more exposure. I've been using his ssh magic since he showed it to me about one month ago, and Nathan is to be thanked for the generalized program lists his plugins rely on (included in ruby-wmii 0.3.1: bookmark manager, generalized menus, view history...), and several aspects of the plugin system.

This is the functionality you'll find in his darcs repository:

• menu-based music controller supporting:
  • totem
  • banshee
  • rhythmbox
  • beep-media-player
  • mpc/mpd
  • squeezebox
• support for .desktop files from Gnome, KDE, ROX, XFCE in the program menu
• listing of connectable ssh hosts in the program menu
• pushing/pulling selected client from/to current view

Install