Re: [Banshee-List] Missing panel control in Ubuntu 14.10



On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 02:01:55PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 05:50:42AM +0000, Jeffery Small wrote:
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I'm very sorry to hear this -- especially given that there is a
non-functioning option for this on the Preferences menu.  I sure wish
developers of these tools were more supportive of user preferences and
implemented GUI changes as options rather than forcing these things upon
everyone.  Given the Preference menu entry, maybe that is some indication
that this feature could be restored.  Is anyone on the development team
listing here?

No, don't misunderstand. The indicator change was a downstream decision within
Ubuntu to remove the notification area and replace it with indicators instead.
I'm actually quite satisfied with how it turned out, as there is now a unified
area for media players to reside in.

The Sound Menu functions over MPRIS2, which is a standard for controlling media
players over D-Bus. Any MPRIS2-supporting player will turn up in the Sound Menu,
including Totem, Rhythmbox, and gnome-mplayer. (Sorry, I don't know what the
XFCE alternatives are).

The Sound Menu extension in Banshee just tells Banshee not to shut down if its
window is closed and the sound menu is present.

The Notification Area extension in Banshee adds a notification area icon if the
notification area exists, and tells Banshee not to shut down if its window is
closed and the notification area icon is still present. This doesn't work in
Unity or XFCE today because there is no longer a notification area (I think).

The Indicator Applet extension does the same thing as the above, but without the
hover functionality, and in the indicator applet instead. This was a fairly
crappy solution which I was annoyed about, before we moved to the Sound Menu.

All in all, my advice is to live with it, and use hotkeys to control Banshee. If
your keyboard lacks multimedia keys, use custom hotkeys bound to "banshee
--toggle-playing", "banshee --next" and "banshee --prev" instead.

-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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