Re: [Banshee-List] A 10-foot interface for Banshee

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Stuart Langridge <sil kryogenix org> wrote:
>> There's a third alternative that might be worth considering :
>> Banshee allows you to create so-called "clients". The main banshee UI we
>> all know and love is just one of those client, called Nereid. Muinshee
>> is another client, and there some other, non UI, client (for indexing
>> and command-line control).
>> There's even a bootloader to decide which client to run. See
>> src/Clients/Booter/Booter/Entry.cs for a nice ASCII flowchart. ;)
>>
>> So a new "Media Center" client should be able to do what you want. It
>> would of course be able to take full advantage of what banshee has to
>> offer : widgets, services, etc.
>>
>> I assume you'd use this client on your big and little machines, and that
>> you don't need the regular banshee UI on those. Because you need to
>> restart banshee to run another client.
>
> Wow. That'd be out-and-out perfect. Is there any documentation about
> this sort of thing? (Do other clients have to be written as Mono
> apps?)

The best documentation is the code for the aforementioned clients
afaik (banshee/src/Clients).  Yeah, it needs to be written in Mono, as
it's basically an addin to Banshee.

Sandy