MOC and GNOME

Hey,

I love the player, and I'm using it exclusively, thanks a lot to Damian for developing that wonderwul piece of software. It's perfect.

Well, almost... ;)

I am not much of a programmer, but I think I can manage a simple GNOME applet to control the server - that's what I'm really missing, because I don't want to have a console dedicated to the player (it's a tad cumbersome to use), and I'd like to be able to just have a look at the applet and see what's playing, for how long, etc. I know there is one applet already, but it's written in OCaml, which I don't understand, and I couldn't compile it, either. And I don't want to keep the OCaml stuff on my machine, because my space is limited.

Besides, it will be a nice exercise for me, so I'll be doing it mostly for the coding experience. :P

So, my question is this - should I use the command line options (e.g., `mocp -p`, `mocp -s`, etc.) to send commands to the server, or is there another way I'm not aware of? As far as I could tell from the OCaml source for the existing applet, Start|Stop|Play are sent in a different way, and the info is updated by `mocp --info`. However, what this other way is is beyond my poor skills to find out on my own.

Any advice will be much appreciated,

Cheers,
Emil