Re: [Banshee-List] Add-ins Repo - Tomboy team is looking for a home

[Jared Jennings <jaredljennings gmail com>]

Yes I really like this idea as well as the other Tomboy Maintainers. We were hoping that we could utilize some existing infrastructure to provide some Add-In interface where the user to browse the available Add-Ins / Extensions and install as desired.

PackageKit is a great idea, but doesn't address Windows or Mac.

I do agree that once you provide a framework for the user to install "x" it means that you are support "x". I think the framework should address the basic users that don't know how to find .config/... while other power users know how to download "x".dll and install it in .config/...

I think we could also have the list of "officially supported" and community support in the list of browsable / installable Add-Ins / Extensions.

-Jared

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Michael Stephenson <mickstephenson ovi com> wrote:

On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 13:39 -0500, Gabriel Burt wrote:
> No, Banshee doesn't use Mono.Addin's concept/support for online
> repositories.  We do have an enhancement bug report open tracking the
> idea: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535818 .  MonoDevelop
> does use it, however.

Alternately you could follow the approach of this bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641619

And use packagekit. The problem with using Mono.Addin's is that plugins
have their own dependencies, so you end up with users installing the
lirc plugin when they don't have lircd installed. Then you have to tell
the user to manually install lircd.

Right now if a plugin is not installed a user browsing banshee will be
unaware of it's existence, this would allow banshee to be aware of any
plugin that is packaged by in that distributions package.

This would also remove the need on ubuntu to have the BCE metapackage
which installs every community extension, alongs with its dependencies,
such as the lircd daemon even if the plugin is not enabled.

I know packagekit isn't currently installed by default on ubuntu for
example, but if installed it works perfectly alongside apt and doesn't
cause any problems.

I don't see how a plugin browser/installer could be satisfactorily
achieved any other way.

Wouldn't it be a jolly nice collaborative project between Banshee and
Tomboy to create a mono/packagekit plugin browser/installer framework?