Re: Detecting music from KDE music players..

[Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 02:54 +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:

> I've been looking at adding player detection for amaroK and other music
> players that expose the current playing track via dcop. There are two
> obvious ways to achieve this;
> 
>   * link against the KDE libraries, and use dcop directly from drivel.
>     obvious downside: this makes the KDE libraries a dependency unless 
>     they are checked for and linked at runtime, which is probably 
>     painful
>   * run /usr/bin/dcop (with a configure argument to specify that path) 
>     and just parse the output. Simple, and reasonably robust..
> 
> Which should I go ahead with in order to have the patch accepted? :-)

I think you should instead aim to add a D-BUS interface to Amarok,
ideally the same one that is exposed in muine. This way we can interface
with two birds using one stone^Wmethod. Rhythmbox could also do this,
and then I could ditch all that nasty bonobo property bag code.

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