[Rhythmbox-devel] DBus Interface for database querying

[Raphael Slinckx <raphael slinckx net>]

James Livingston wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 15:45 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: 
>
> > Apart from the funky overblown ideas of splitting RB into a front-end
> > and a backend (how do you communicate between the 2? What happens when
> > you break your soft ABI? More problems than it's worth IMO), the
> > discussion is mainly around the music as a service.
>
>
> Enhancing the DBus interface, with support for queries and the like
> would be very useful though. Effectively it would mean that you can
> create an alternate UI, by asking Rhythmbox to start with it's window
> hidden and controlling it via DBus. It wouldn't be an actual split into
> front-end and back-end, but from the users point of view it would be
> equivalent.

A bit offtopic with the initial thread, but still related:
Do you think it would be possible to have a dbus interface to search 
rhythmbox database remotely ?

I'm asking for example along with the deskbar applet, i could type an 
artist name or song title, query rhythmbox, it returns some matches, and 
i can then play the songs by selecting one in the list.

That would require something like
search(string, max results) -> (artist, title, uri)*
play(uri) which i beleive already exists.

What do you think ?
Raf