self.title = self.meta.get("title", self.module)

        # add default options values to config.conf.* dict
        conf.add_plugin_defaults(self.meta, self.module)
        
        # Only if streamtuner2 is run in graphical mode        
        if (parent):









            self.cache()
            self.gui(parent)

        # Stub for ST2 main window / dispatcher
        else:
            self.parent = stub_parent(None)

        self.columns([])
        
        # add to main menu
        uikit.add_menu([parent.channelmenuitems], self.meta["title"], lambda w: parent.channel_switch_by_name(self.module) or 1)

    # Just wraps uikit.columns() to retain liststore, rowmap and pix_entry
    def columns(self, entries=None):
        self.ls, self.rowmap, self.pix_entry = uikit.columns(self.gtk_list, self.datamap, entries)

    # Statusbar stub (defers to parent/main window, if in GUI mode)
    def status(self, *args, **kw):
        if self.parent: self.parent.status(*args, **kw)
        else: log.INFO("status():", *v)

            self.status("Updating streams...")
            self.status(-0.1)
            if category == "empty":
                new_streams = self.empty_stub
            else:
                new_streams = self.update_streams(category)
  

            if new_streams:
                # check and modify entry;
                # assert that title and url are present
                modified = []
                for row in new_streams:
                    if len(set(["", None]) & set([row.get("title"), row.get("url")])):
                        continue
                    try:
                        modified.append( self.postprocess(row) )
                    except Exception as e:
                        log.DATA(e, "Missing title or url. Postprocessing failed:", row)
                new_streams = modified
  
                # don't lose forgotten streams
                if conf.retain_deleted:
                   self.streams[category] = new_streams + self.deleted_streams(new_streams, self.streams.get(category,[]))
                else:
                   self.streams[category] = new_streams
  

        for row in old:
            if ("url" in row and (row.get("url") not in new)):
                row["deleted"] = 1
                diff.append(row)
        return diff

    
    # prepare data for display
    #
    #  - favourite icon
    #  - or deleted icon
    #
    def prepare(self, streams):

        for i,row in enumerate(streams):

            # state icon: bookmark star

            if (conf.show_bookmarks and "bookmarks" in self.parent.channels and self.parent.bookmarks.is_in(streams[i].get("url", "file:///tmp/none"))):
                streams[i]["favourite"] = 1
            
            # state icon: INFO or DELETE
            if (not row.get("state")):
                if row.get("favourite"):
                    streams[i]["state"] = gtk.STOCK_ABOUT
                if conf.retain_deleted and row.get("deleted"):
                    streams[i]["state"] = gtk.STOCK_DELETE
            
            # Favicons? construct local cache filename, basically reimplements favicon.row_to_fn()
            if conf.show_favicons and "favicon" in self.parent.features:
                url = row.get("img") or row.get("homepage")
                if url:
                    # Normalize by stripping proto:// and non-alphanumeric chars
                    url = re.sub("[^\w._-]", "_", re.sub("^\w+://|/$", "", url.lower()))
                    streams[i]["favicon"] = "{}/icons/{}.png".format(conf.dir, url)







        return streams


    # data preparations directly after reload
    #
    # - drop shoutcast homepage links
    # - or find homepage name in title
    #
    def postprocess(self, row):

        # deduce homepage URLs from title
        # by looking for www.xyz.com domain names

        if not row.get("homepage"):
            url = self.rx_www_url.search(row.get("title", ""))
            if url:
                url = url.group(0).lower().replace(" ", "")
                url = (url if url.find("www.") == 0 else "www."+url)
                row["homepage"] = ahttp.fix_url(url)

        return row

        

    # reload current stream from web directory
    def reload(self):
        self.load(self.current, force=1)
    def switch(self):

    #
    # An according entries list then would contain a dictionary for each row:
    #   entries = [ {"titlerow":"first", "interndat":123}, {"titlerow":"..."}, ]
    # Keys not mentioned in the datamap get ignored, and defaults are applied
    # for missing cols. All values must already be in the correct type however.
    #
    @staticmethod
    def columns(widget, datamap=[], entries=None, pix_entry=False):

        # create treeviewcolumns?
        if (not widget.get_column(0)):
            # loop through titles
            datapos = 0
            for n_col,desc in enumerate(datamap):
                                

                # map Python2 unicode to str
                row = [ str(value) if type(value) is unicode else value  for value in row ]

                # autotransform string -> gtk image object
                if (pix_entry and type(row[pix_entry]) == str):
                    pix = None
                    try:
                        if os.path.exists(row[pix_entry]):
                            pix = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file(row[pix_entry])
                    except Exception as e:
                        log.ERR("uikik.columns: Pixbuf fail,", e)
                    row[pix_entry] = pix or defaults[gtk.gdk.Pixbuf]

                try:
                    # add