Re: org.gnome.Application DBus Interface

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 20:26 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 06:32:32PM +0100, Alex Jones wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 19:00 +0200, Nicolas Trangez wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:05 +0100, Alex Jones wrote:
> > > > media_player_proxy = dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name (connection,
> > > > 	"org.gnome.Rhythmbox",
> > > >         "/org/gnome/Rhythmbox,
> > > > 	"org.gnome.MediaPlayer"); // Any random interface here
> > > > 
> > > > error = NULL;
> > > > dbus_g_proxy_call (proxy, "Pause", &error, G_TYPE_INVALID, G_TYPE_INVALID);
> > > Remains the issue: "I want to pause the currently playing music player.
> > > Now I wonder what it's object path is."
> > > You can hardly keep a list of all known object paths (RB, Totem,
> > > Banshee, whatever) in your application-which-wants-to-pause-the-player.
> > > 
> > > Nicolas
> > 
> > We are getting hideously off topic, but this is something that can be
> > stored in GConf as a "preferred media player" key:
> 
>   "Preferred" player is something different than "currently playing
> player".

Has anyone actually looked at the code in gnome-settings-daemon?

It handles just those kind of cases, making sure that the last player to
have been focused is the one receiving the key events, so that:
- Play music in Rhythmbox, pause music using the keys
- Launch totem, play a video, pause it using the keys, close totem
- Press the play key
actually plays in Rhythmbox, as you'd expect.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>