Re: [Banshee-List] A 10-foot interface for Banshee

[Stuart Langridge <sil kryogenix org>]

> There's a third alternative that might be worth considering :
> Banshee allows you to create so-called "clients". The main banshee UI we
> all know and love is just one of those client, called Nereid. Muinshee
> is another client, and there some other, non UI, client (for indexing
> and command-line control).
> There's even a bootloader to decide which client to run. See
> src/Clients/Booter/Booter/Entry.cs for a nice ASCII flowchart. ;)
>
> So a new "Media Center" client should be able to do what you want. It
> would of course be able to take full advantage of what banshee has to
> offer : widgets, services, etc.
>
> I assume you'd use this client on your big and little machines, and that
> you don't need the regular banshee UI on those. Because you need to
> restart banshee to run another client.

Wow. That'd be out-and-out perfect. Is there any documentation about
this sort of thing? (Do other clients have to be written as Mono
apps?)

sil

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