Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Automatic GStreamer plugin installation

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 09:02 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2007 2:13 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 22:13 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've just committed support for automatic GStreamer plugin
> > > installation in svn trunk. What does this actually do? When you try to
> > > import, play, or download from a podcast feed a media type for which
> > > you don't have a decoder, rhythmbox will bring up gnome-app-install
> > > (Debian/Ubuntu) or codeina (Fedora) to attempt to install the
> > > GStreamer plugins you need. If the installation is successful,
> > > rhythmbox will then retry whatever you were doing. If not, it won't.
> > > If you don't have a plugin installation tool installed, then this
> > > shouldn't make any difference to you at all.
> >
> > Did you commit exactly that version of the patch?
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338308#c16
> 
> Yes.

Cool, I've added it to rhythmbox-0.11.3-2.

> > I'd like to get this patch in Fedora rawhide, get more testing and
> > probably feed it back to Fedora 8.
> 
> Sounds like a good plan. It shouldn't be hard to backport, as most of
> the code it touches doesn't change that often.

We have 0.11.3 in Fedora 8 now, as it removes the need for all those
patches I've committed :)

Thanks for writing that code.