Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee and the OpenMoko

[Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be>]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 13:23 -0500, Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> If I understand banshee right, it is designed so that various
> interfaces can be placed on top of it and various engines can be put
> below it. I'm also seeing that there is an interest in running .net[1]
> on the OpenMoko[2]. so I'm thinking it would be easy enough to create
> an interface that would run, perhaps on the Helix backend. I
> understand Helix is a common embedded device product. Then an
> interface could be put together with perhaps an appropriate radio
> plugin and we'd have banshee for this cool cell phone and also
> providing ip radio.
> 
> To be sure, this is a long way from fruition. The .net implementation
> for OpenMoko is still in the planning stage, but I'd like to see
> banshee break into its potential to have other interfaces on top of
> it. I really like the current one, but why not spread the beauty out
> to OpenMoko or KDE or Vista?
> 
> So how big a project would that really be? Is the ease of this porting
> all in my head? Being a non-programmer, I'm likely missing many issues
> that would have to be faced, but it sounds like an interesting project
> for someone with interest in embedded stuff and C#/Mono.

Banshee should be portable, but I'm afraid nobody of us has an OpenMoko.
I'd be willing to hack on it though, would be a great test for our
codebase.

    Ruben


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