Re: [Banshee-List] Re move the video portion of Banshee?

[wonder <gogo wonder gmail com>]

May I have some words?
It's said that banshee is an extremely tiny essential core with may other plugins. I wonder if the video feature could be designed as a plugin too. If so, people could just turn it off if they hate it.

2008/11/17 Brian Lucas <bcl1713 gmail com>

Forgive me if I'm wrong here.. but you have yet to state how this option interferes with your experience or is causing you any problems whatsoever. Expanding this project to include video did not require your vote.  And the people who worked hard to put it there really don't need you coming along and telling them how it has destroyed your user experience without any evidence of that.  If it were up to me (which its not as I am just a follower of this project and not a contributor) I would say if you want it gone so bad.. find it yourself and take it out.. but don't attack the developers of software you obviously use because they added a desired feature, just because you didn't want it.
</me gets off his soap box>
Brian
(I do not claim to speak for the developers here)

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:33 PM, comomolo <comomolo loquecreas com> wrote:

Alex Launi wrote:
>
>
>>Could you be more specific? What don't you like about it, give specific
>>examples and constructive criticism and maybe your concerns will be
>>addressed in a future release.
>

> 1- Banshee's design screams "I'm an audio library manager" all over the
> place. That's quite right. It's when you add an uncalled for video library
> that things start going wrong.
>
> 2- Open the preferences dialog. You will find settings for all audio
> related things. None for video... as expected for a music library manager.
>
> 3- Scan all the menu entries and try to find video-related ones. There's
> none. Why? This is a music library manager, which is quite OK until you
> put a video section there that looks completely out of place.
>
> I'm just stating the obvious. There's nothing I really would do to improve
> Banshee's video section except removing it, because I think Banshee has
> been designed to be a music library manager, and that's where it shines.
> If you really really really want to turn Banshee from a music library
> manager into a media library manager, then redesign it accordingly... from
> the start. Rethink the whole thing and get a proper design for general
> media. Just putting there a video section because Gstreamer will handle
> that media, has little to do with that and makes it an ugly and wrong
> decision.
>
> Now, really, I don't want to get involved in Banshee's design. I'm only
> saying all this because you asked. All I need is to get rid of those lines
> of code that put that video thingy in the middle of my music collection,
> or if the devs are so gentle, a switch that will hide it somehow (command
> line options, preferences switch, anything).
>
> Regards,
>
> sicofante
>
>
> --
> --Alex Launi

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