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 README
 
+This whole project was spawned by my highschool self, I wrote an applet called
+Mocicon that sits on the X11 systray and issues commands to the moc music player.
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+However It was woefully dumb, it issued commands by just calling mocp with various flags, 
+and had no internal notion of the state of MOC.
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+So, here I am, more than a decade later without a great way to talk to mocp still, though
+there have been some notably decent contributions and patches including MPRIS support. However,
+I'd like to avoid using dbus as it would make doing this all over the network less fun.
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+Here's what we have so far.
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+1. a small header and library we can use to get information about mocp
+2. a demo x11 applet that pulls the information
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+Here's what we don't have
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+1. A way to submit events to the queue.
+2. Safety around the structure. More helper functions to access elements should prevent weird 
+data issues around locking.
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+It's been written in a way that the  library operates on it's own thread, so that you can use
+this in realtime with a separate event loop. Initially I tried to jam the X11 and moc socket
+events into one loop but it just caused to many issues. the downside is now I need to communicate in
+and out of the thread and do so safetly.
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+I think I am going to just write an event queue that we can lock, push events into, and then let the
+main libmoc thread pickup during it's loop. That way we can submit events like play, pause, stop, and so forth.
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+Here's the original Readme for kicks.
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+# MocIcon
+
 Mocicon is a Music On Console tray icon for quick access.
 Report Bugs (which there aren't any) or suggestions to MutantTurkey@gmail.com, MutantTurkey@freenode.net