Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 18:12 +0200, Zeeshan Ali wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> ----- Original message ----- 
> > 
> > The only comments I would make are: 
> > - The preferences UI is pretty horrible 
> 
> I agree but I really suck at UIs so if you could list specific issues,
> I promise to fix them soon. As you recall you filed some bugs
> regarding this and I fixed them all soon after except for the one I
> didn't understand. BTW that bug is still waiting for your
> explaination. 
> 
> > - The plugin API should instead be a convenience library around
> using 
> > the D-Bus API, which would make implementing other front-ends to
> those 
> > plugins easier. I guess it wouldn't be powerful enough for some
> plugins 
> > though, so maybe it should be an interface with 2 possible 
> > implementations, and the more powerful one having some extra 
> > functionality. 
> 
> In theory I agree but in practice this will mean double d-bus round
> trips in case of tracker (a backend very important for maemo
> uses-case) unless/until tracker guys agree to implement the
> MediaServer spec. Last I talked to Ivan about this, he didn't seem
> very enthusiastic about this. :( 

2 things come to mind:
- Tracker shouldn't need to use D-Bus to access its database read-only:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613255
- The way you currently use Tracker means that there's no way to
differentiate between videos that I want indexed and searchable, and the
ones that I want to export. This is a privacy problem and could be
solved by making applications provide their catalogues instead (which
could be powered by Tracker).