Re: [Banshee-List] .is_audio_player GUI

[David Nielsen <gnomeuser gmail com>]

2010/3/29 Jeroen Budts <jeroen lightyear be>

A few days ago i started to think about creating a GUI inside Banshee to
create the .is_audio_player file for a MassStorageDevice.
I also found a bug about this feature request:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535325

I think such a GUI could be build as an extension (please correct me if i'm
wrong?)
It could add a menu entry in the Tools menu ("Configure new MassStorage
Device"). It can also add an entry in the right-click menu on a recognized
device ("Edit configuration"). Both would open the GUI and show at the top
a list of devices/filesystems attached to the computer. In case of an Edit,
the correct device should be selected.
The GUI obviously should present all the available options for
MassStorageDevices, and should write the selected values to the
.is_audio_player file.
Once the patch for https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535323 is
accepted the GUI can also show a checkbox to completely ignore the selected
device. In this case the GUI should write a .is_not_audio_player file on
the device.

In a later stage, maybe Banshee could keep an online database of
.is_audio_player files and let the user search for a file for his device
(or let Banshee does this for the user, by using the hardware info).

I'd like to give it a try to create this GUI. (But please give me some time
to learn GTK#...)

Comments and Ideas are welcome!
Jeroen

Some way of adding support to devices without having to upgrade Banshee would be nice at least, we have seen it a lot lately especially with the flood of new Android devices. Perhaps it would be good to examine how we solve similar problems in the rest of the system, should Banshee check of this database, should it be a separate package we could issue updates to shared with other media players? 

- David