Re: [Banshee-List] Help user in showing how to import music into banshee

[zekopeko <zekopeko gmail com>]

How about having an inline dialog/options? Like you do now for the
iPod and other music players instead of popping up a dialog.

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Didier Roche <didrocks ubuntu com> wrote:
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> This is an issue I've discussed today on #banshee with alexk and with
>> Betrand.
>> I find that the first time you launch banshee, if you don't have music
>> already imported, someone can be a little bit puzzled.
>>
>> It's even more clear in the MeeGo interface (even if MeeGo workarounds
>> this in providing good jazzy music by default ;)).
>> I have some difficulty to go into the Banshee code to understand the
>> whole map, a first approach discussed with alexk seems to change the
>> base class (FLSC) to Show/Hide the library and replace it by some label
>> saying "you need to import in …" or "add some music to ~/Music" for
>> instance.
>> I've tried to detect some change in the Model (number of available
>> Music) in FLSC.SetModel() as suggested, but I don't really understand
>> how it works as it seems to be only called with model and view.Model set
>> to null there. Even when the model should contain albums/tracks…
>>
>> Another approach (maybe more lightweight), suggested by Bertand is to
>> use a use a SourceMessage. He proposed a patch
>> (http://pastebin.com/S1UHpUnc) and it's working well in the traditional
>> interface. The issue is that the MeeGo interface should contain a
>> SourceMessage connected to that signal too, and despite my effort, I
>> didn't succeed in connected the bridge.
>>
>> Any ideas or suggestions?
>
> We used to pop up the Import dialog on first run.  I've thought about
> bringing that back, and/or letting the user choose their Music library
> location (and then implicitly importing it).
>
> Gabriel
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