Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Better support for USB audio players

["Gabriel Burt" <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On 11/6/06, James Doc Livingston <doclivingston gmail com> wrote:
> Given that the .is_audio_player was meant as an ad-hoc method for
> working around missing HAL info[0], it sounds find to me. Rhythmbox
> currently ignores the contents of the file, so it won't break anything.
>
> Are you thinking of just making the keys identical to the HAL ones? That
> would be nice for merging info from it and HAL together, to people could
> just add the extra keys HAL doesn't know about

Yes, definitely using the same keys/values as would be found in the
fdi file.  We are considering having a dialog where the user can enter
the information about their device and it will save it to
.is_audio_player -and- generate a patch for the fdi file that can be
sent in.

Thanks for the feedback,

Gabriel