Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Suggested Features

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

Copying the Banshee list for input. Please continue any Banshee-related discussion there.

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Mats Taraldsvik <mats taraldsvik broadpark no> wrote:

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 07:40 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Mats Taraldsvik
> <mats taraldsvik broadpark no> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 03:44 -0400, Tommy Ryan wrote:
>         > I really like Rhythmbox. I have a couple suggestions of
>         features to add.
>         > I was unsure what the best way to do that is.
>         >
>         > 1. Video support - I know alot have suggested this
>
>         Why would Rhythmbox need video support? Totem, VLC, MPlayer
>         does this.
>
> Not to pick on you (more a commentary on the subsequent thread), but
> Banshee recently added video support
> (http://banshee-project.org/download/archives/1.0.0/) and I haven't
> seen any but one person (who was rather trollish) complain about it.
> Obviously at least some people want a consolidated media player, and
> of course you're still free to continue using separate apps for the
> job.

I know that Banshee added this, and frankly, I hate it. That's another
player when right-clicking a video file -> play with.

Uninstall Mplayer, VLC, gxine, and others. I have only two (Totem and Banshee). And even if you have more, I wouldn't really call that a major problem. :)
 

If Rhythmbox adds this, I should be able to disable it, something I
haven't figured out how to do in Banshee. (Is it possible?).

I'm not sure. It might be an extension you can disable in Edit | Preferences, on the Extensions tab? (Anyone else able to test this?) I haven't thought about this since I'm rather enamored by the idea, but this is certainly a valid use case that should be covered, IMO.

Cheers,
Andrew