Re: [Banshee-devel-list] New Community Extension "JustPlayFiles" to solve bgo#634717

[Michael Stephenson <mickstephenson ovi com>]

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 15:18 +0000, Michael Stephenson wrote:
> The default banshee behaviour is to add anything loaded from the
> filesystem to it's corresponding library.
> 
> What the FSQ does it instead creates a seperate library designed to be
> filled up with garbage over time. It can not be manually ordered like a
> playlist, and isn't even technically a queue since it can only be sorted
> by any field and is only a queue if it is sorted by date added.
> 
> I don't find that functionality desirable so I would like to be able to
> disable the Filesystem Queue entirely. However when I do I am faced with
> a worse problem every video I add gets added to my actual video library.
> NO ONE wants that behaviour, seriously find me someone who wants that to
> happen.
> 
> I'd actually argue this is the solution:
> 
> Step 1:
> 
> Nuke the filesystem queue library from high orbit.
> 
> Step 2:
> 
> Change the default behaviour so by default it plays and forgets.
> 
> Step 3: Add an option to add to the end of the play queue (an actual
> playlist that can be ordered) when loaded form filesystem to preferences
> 
> Step 4: Add another option to add to the library when loaded form
> filesystem to preferences.
> 
> Put this all in core not plugins.
> 
> 
> Can anyone explain why the current state of affairs where having a
> another library called the filesystem queue is preferable to just adding
> a track to the end of the play queue?
> 

Here is a screenshot to demonstrate what I mean.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d97abdiil0jrsne/Preferences_011.png


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