Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] How to hack rhythmbox 0.9.6 to start in fullscreen

[Alex Lancaster <alexl users sourceforge net>]

>>>>> "WJM" == William Jon McCann  writes:

[...]

WJM> Does "Party Mode" do what you want?  The idea was to support this
WJM> kind of semi-kiosk role.

Based on the request:

> P.S. One more thing. We edited an XML file to get rid of the Music
> Edit View etc. menus at the top, which we don't want users to
> touch. We haven't figured out how to get rid of Playqueue, Library,
> Radio and Podcasts on the left-hand side while still displaying
> album art. Any hints? We just want to display the local music
> library, nothing else is of use to this project and is just a
> distraction for the users.

it looks like they are looking for what I was (more or less)
suggesting in:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323933#c16

and party mode only gets you partly there.  There should be an
alternative "jukebox" mode which basically makes everything read-only
(i.e. no modification of playlists, podcasts, radio).  This could be
in addition to party mode, e.g. several "lockdown" modes.  You could
have 3 modes:

1. "party mode" as is

2. "jukebox" mode: like 1) but everything is read-only, you can only
   add things to the play queue, no modifications of playlists, radio
   stations, podcasts, no ripping of CDs etc, but you can switch
   sources

3. "total lockdown": like 2) but locked to a single source
   (e.g. Library or playlist), the only thing you can do is play/pause
   select different tracks within that source

Even further was another suggestion on the same bug, is to allow the
different levels to be customized:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323933#c24

you could have pre-configured profiles (as above), but the user could
configure exactly what is or is not modifiable.

Alex