Re: Expectations for Grilo plugins that require passwords

["Juan A. Suarez Romero" <jasuarez igalia com>]

On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 11:18 +0200, Guillaume Emont wrote:
> > b) Implement the signaling system you're talking about in the DMAP
> > plugin. That is, DMAP plugin can read the DNS-SD record and, if a
> > password is required, launching a signal. Application would be
> listening
> > this signal and showing a dialog to get the password.
> > 
> I feel like the two best solutions are a) or actually implementing
> that
> signal in core, since they are more generic. b) sounds like the path
> to
> inconsistent additional APIs in plugins. I don't think we want that. 

I'd try also first (a).

The idea of (b) is to use it as a test to see benefits and drawbacks. If
we find it very useful then we can think to move it from the specific
DMAP plugin to core.

My concern is mainly if this feature is a general one, or a very
specific of this plugin. If this is a common case in other services, I
don't mind to look for a way of integrating it in the core. But as DMAP
is the only one showing this so far, I would like to use it as a test to
search for the best approach.

My 2cents.

	J.A.