[Banshee-devel-list] Banshee interface question

[Patrick van Staveren <trick vanstaveren us>]

Hey folks,

I wanted to keep this off the main ML because I don't want every  
banshee user asking for this alpha-pre-testing code that I wish not to  
distribute yet :)

Abock, you can probably answer this question best but if anyone could  
give me some pointers, that'd be great :)

I was looking to see if it'd be possible to directly modify the data  
within the Library source's treeview (from a plugin context) without  
entirely replacing it with a new widget.  Specifically, I'm looking to  
see if a "browser" view could be possible from a plugin, or if it  
would be necessary to integrate such a thing in the core.  Naturally,  
if it could be done thru a plugin, that'd be superb as some users have  
different ideas about how they want to browse their library and this  
way it could be kept in a plugin and out of the core.

I know how to do pretty much everything - querying the library for  
artists/albums/etc and making my own treeviews and such - I actually  
have all that mess written, and I can display it in a separate source  
view (see  
http://trick.vanstaveren.us/tmp/browse%20demo%20traditional.png).  I  
just don't know how to happily interact with the library view and keep  
things sane there while making this a drop in replacement for the  
current view.

Any pointers would be both greatly appreciated and put to good use, as  
there are few banshee users out there that wouldn't kill for a plugin  
that can do this :)

Cheers,

Patrick

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