Re: [Banshee-List] some ideas for features and questions

[Alexander Kojevnikov <alexander kojevnikov com>]

On 22 March 2010 06:26, Jeroen Budts <jeroen lightyear be> wrote:
> 3) In Smart Playlists, there currently is the 'Playlist is xxx' requirement
> but it only lets us select non-smart playlists. I would like to be able to
> select smart playlists as well, to create sub lists of other smart
> playlists.

You already can, the property is called "Smart Playlist". See related
bugs 571105 and 585093.

> Since i'm still very new to development on Linux and the Banshee codebase i
> have some questions.
>
> - Are there some, rather easy, bugs which i could try to fix and would be
> good to learn and explore the code?

Check bugs with gnome-love keyword [1], there are a few of them for
Banshee. You can also try bugs 600067 and 592197. Also join #banshee,
it's faster to get answers to technical questions on IRC.

> - How do other people use a banshee.db during development? I know the --db
> paramter for banshee, and in the properties of the Nereid client in
> MonoDevelop i can add this parameter, but it modifies the project file. Or
> is it better to use the default database during development and use another
> one when you run Banshee just want to listen to music?

I have this line in my ~/.bashrc:

export BANSHEE_DEV_OPTIONS="--db=$HOME/.config/banshee-1/banshee.dev.db
--gconf-base-key=/apps/banshee-1-dev/ --debug-metrics"

It allows to run banshee in a sandbox when using `make run`.
Unfortunately MonoDevelop doesn't parse env variables in project
settings [2] so we cannot use it there. When I want to debug Banshee
in MD, I temporary add the additional parameters to Nereid project
settings.

[1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove
[2] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404157