Re: Detecting music from KDE music players..

[Todd Kulesza <todd dropline net>]

Davyd Madeley wrote:
> 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.

I agree with Davyd, D-BUS would be the best option if possible.  If not, 
dcop seems a reasonable way to get it to work for now.

Cheers,
Todd