Re: [Banshee-List] Newbie developer question

[Patrick van Staveren <trick vanstaveren us>]

Dan,

It's not horribly complex, however odds are that the delay you're
talking about is fixed.  v0.11.3 which was just released on Dec 9th has
some major performance enhancements particularly with switching source
views.  You didn't specify a version, but I'm willing to bed that
upgrading to 0.11.3 will fix your delays :)

However, if you are looking for developer experience, I'm sure you can
find something to do around the Banshee community.  Most of the code is
written in C#, so you'd need to know/learn it.  There are plenty of
places where developers could get involved...we've always got a small
queue of patches waiting in bugzilla as well as quite a few bugs that
are waiting to be triaged.  Also, a great way to learn to code things
for Banshee is in plugins - we have a handful of plugins that could
certainly use some love and perhaps a regular maintainer.  There's also
plenty of feature requests on the wiki that could be implemented as
plugins or as patches to the core.  I started working on Banshee writing
plugins and have been hooked since :)

Cheers,

Patrick



On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 14:15 -0500, Dan Mann wrote:
> 
> I use banshee almost daily and I like it.  I noticed that sometimes when
> I switch between my playlist view and my library view I have a good 10
> second delay.  I've got visual basic/visual studio development
> experience (small single task based programs) and I wondered how hard it
> would be for me to get into the banshee source to figure out why the
> delay is occurring.  I downloaded the code and began looking at it.  I
> don't know how the forms/gui events are handled, I was going to look for
> the code that is triggered when switching playlist views and go from
> there.  
> 
> Being completely new and all I'm wondering if this is way to difficult
> for a beginner to accomplish.
> 
> I guess I have to start somewhere, eh?
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Dan
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