[Banshee-List] A few things... (and you guys rock)

["Matt Philmon" <mattisking gmail com>]

First of all... Aaron, and the rest of you guys... you rock. This latest from SVN is just incredible.

Here's a few things I felt best to just lump in one email:
1) I've never been able to get the wikipedia plugin to run on Ubuntu. I'm running Edgy now but I have the same problems with Dapper. It compiles and installs fine, I enable it, and then click to View it, but an error is always thrown. Here's what's happening on the terminal for a short session:

$ banshee
Debug: [7/28/2006 1:40:30 AM] (Default player engine) - GStreamer 0.10
Debug: [7/28/2006 1:40:31 AM] (Audio CD Core Initialised) -
Initializing Banshee.Plugins.Wikipedia.WikipediaPlugin
Audioscrobbler starting protocol engine
Warning: [7/28/2006 1:40:31 AM] (Could not initialize plugin `Daap') - Daemon not running
Loading Podcast Feeds:  155 ms
NameOwnerChanged org.gnome.Banshee ->:1.25
System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Gecko.WebControl ---> System.DllNotFoundException: /usr/lib/firefox/libgtkembedmoz.so
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) Gecko.WebControl:gtk_moz_embed_get_type ()
  at Gecko.WebControl.get_GType () [0x00000]
  at GtkSharp.GeckoSharp.ObjectManager.Initialize () [0x00000]
  at Gecko.WebControl..cctor () [0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

  at <0x00000> <unknown method>
  at Banshee.Plugins.Wikipedia.ContextBrowser.InitBrowser () [0x00000]
  at Banshee.Plugins.Wikipedia.ContextBrowser..ctor () [0x00000]
  at Banshee.Plugins.Wikipedia.ContextPane.InitGui () [0x00000]
  at Banshee.Plugins.Wikipedia.ContextPane..ctor () [0x00000]
  at Banshee.Plugins.Wikipedia.QueryController..ctor () [0x00000]
  at Banshee.Plugins.Wikipedia.WikipediaPlugin.ShowWikipedia (Banshee.Base.TrackInfo info) [0x00000]
  at Banshee.Plugins.Wikipedia.WikipediaPlugin.OnPlayerEngineEventChanged (System.Object o, Banshee.MediaEngine.PlayerEngineEventArgs args) [0x00000]
  at (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void_object_PlayerEngineEventArgs (object,Banshee.MediaEngine.PlayerEngineEventArgs)
  at (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void_object_PlayerEngineEventArgs (object,Banshee.MediaEngine.PlayerEngineEventArgs)
  at Banshee.Base.PlayerEngineCore.OnEngineEventChanged (System.Object o, Banshee.MediaEngine.PlayerEngineEventArgs args) [0x00000]
  at (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void_object_PlayerEngineEventArgs (object,Banshee.MediaEngine.PlayerEngineEventArgs )
  at Banshee.MediaEngine.PlayerEngine.RaiseEventChanged (PlayerEngineEvent evnt, System.String message, Double bufferingPercent) [0x00000]
  at Banshee.MediaEngine.PlayerEngine.OnEventChanged (PlayerEngineEvent evnt, System.String message, Double bufferingPercent) [0x00000]
  at Banshee.MediaEngine.PlayerEngine.OnEventChanged (PlayerEngineEvent evnt) [0x00000]
  at Banshee.MediaEngine.PlayerEngine.HandleOpen (Banshee.Base.SafeUri uri) [0x00000]
Error: [7/28/2006 1:41:46 AM] (Playback Error) - An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Gecko.WebControl
Audioscrobbler stopping protocol engine

Ignore the daemon thing for the moment... I didn't purge that package when I uninstalled it from Ubuntu before installing this build. The stuff about the missing DLL exception (heh) is not true... 
libgtkembedmoz.so is where it's supposed to be, /usr/lib/firefox/ and I do have gecko-sharp-2.0 installed.

2) What is the "scope" plugin? I got it out of curiousity but that's never worked for me either:

$ banshee
Debug: [7/28/2006 1:42:32 AM] (Default player engine) - GStreamer 0.10
Debug: [7/28/2006 1:42:32 AM] (Audio CD Core Initialised) -
Initializing Banshee.Plugins.Wikipedia.WikipediaPlugin
Audioscrobbler starting protocol engine
Warning: [7/28/2006 1:42:33 AM] (Could not initialize plugin `Daap') - Daemon not running
Loading Podcast Feeds:  143 ms
NameOwnerChanged org.gnome.Banshee ->:1.26
Warning: [7/28/2006 1:42:48 AM] (Could not initialize plugin `Scope') - libscopeplugin
Audioscrobbler stopping protocol engine

3) I've seen, so far, one interesting thing in this CVS build running since Aaron's post about all the new goodness: Twice I've seen the View menu move to first place in the list of menu items between runs. Once there, it's there until I shut it down and run it again. It doesn't hamper me, but it's a rather minor bug all the same.

Once again, this release is gonna really rock hard.

Matt Philmon