Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] A few nice to haves for Rhythmbox 0.10.0

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

Hey

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 16:03 +0200, Chris Horton wrote:
> Hey Guys... I love the player but I was wondering if you can allow us
> to search for music containing accented characters a little easier.
> 
> For example, I have a US keyboard but I listen to a lot of French
> music(which contains accents in the names, descriptions...). When
> searching, it would be great to enter a simple "e" without accents and
> the program will find all forms of the letter "e".... I currently have
> to use the character map to enter the accented characters I want. 

I think they call this normalisation, and it's where they make certain
strings of characters equal to others. There are many ways to accent an
e in Unicode/UTF-8, some of them even redundant.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424429

Comment on it if you have anything to add, but definitely CC yourself in
on it.

> I am also curious of the podcast function.... Will you guys ever
> provide a feature to just notify us of new podcasts instead of
> automatically downloading them then with an indication that new
> podcasts are available? This would help a lot for us who don't have a
> fast connection. 

Not sure if there are any bugs open on this one ATM.

You should try and get into Bugzilla, it's a much more organised place
to get feature requests in and lets us, you and the rest of the world
track their status better.

Cheers!
-- 
Alex Jones
http://alex.weej.com/