Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee and the OpenMoko

[jae <jaebird coolaccess net>]

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.
>
> JSR/
>
> [1]  http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/dotnet/
> [2]  http://openmoko.org/
>   
Banshee on the Nokia N800 would also be pretty cool.