Re: [Banshee-List] GSoC Telepathy project

[Neil Loknath <neil loknath gmail com>]

2009/3/10 Gianvito Cavasoli <gianvito gmx it>

Il giorno lun, 09/03/2009 alle 12.46 -0600, Neil Loknath ha scritto:

>  And, anything else that you'd like to comment on. :)
>

I think it's a great idea :)

I can't really take credit for the idea.  It's posted on the GNOME Summer of Code 2009 Ideas page: http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2009/Ideas

But, yes, it's a cool project idea and would be a nice feature for Banshee.  Any comments on the UI?  I'm thinking that have a Telepathy or "IM Sharing" source as a PrimarySource, and then having your online friends sources within that, is a more elegant interface.  You click on a contact and their library shows up.  I think we can circumvent the intrustive factor with a request dialog to the "serving" user stating that someone wants to browse their library.  This way, all of the metadata can be shared and if a user wants to download a file, all they have to do is double click or right click the track and choose "Download" from a popup menu.  Since the SourceManager is available as a DBus interface, this should be possible.

> Just my 2c: maybe it's interesting to abstract the file transfer
> protocol to be able to use it with the one that Giver uses? This way you
> can share things with people in your LAN, no need for them to be
> connected to any IM network.
>
> Regards,
>
>         Andrés

Cool.  I've never heard of Giver.  I'll take a look at it.