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

[Alan McGovern <alan mcgovern gmail com>]

I don't know banshee that well, but could this be done by setting the
first 'view' (is Source the correct word?) to be an
ImportView/ImportSource? This view could have some descriptive text
and flashy graphics showing the user how to import (drag/drop,
File->Import, double click on it maybe?). How does that sound? Is it
even feasible?

Alan.

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Didier Roche <didrocks ubuntu com> wrote:
> Le mardi 22 juin 2010 à 14:48 -0400, Alex Launi a écrit :
>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>
>> wrote:
>>         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).
>>
>
> In fact, the idea is quite different: showing "you can drop file there
> or do that to import your music" is less intrusive than a popup (maybe I
> should start banshee to listen radio?).
> And first popup on launch, are IMHO, things that users generally skip.
> Without an easy way to popup it back.
>
>
>>
>> Do we have usage stats on what directories our users have set as their
>> music library? If most of our users have ~/Music or whatever is set in
>> $XDG_MUSIC_DIR why don't we just run the scanner on first run and
>> import their library for them?
>
> So, my idea is (from a distro perspective and I imagine it can't fit in
> upstream view) to show "no music is available currently in your library,
> you can either put some in <import location> or trigger File -> Import.
>
> The Notification that Bertrand made (see my first email) show that, the
> issue is that I wish this could be shown in either the Banshee interface
> or in the MeeGo one, and that's where my lack of Banshee and Mono
> knowledge clearly appears there :-)
>
> Is that more clear?
> Didier
>
>
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