Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Need help in plugin development

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan d14n org>]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 07:50:41PM +0700, Huy Phan wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new in rhythmbox plugin development. I'm trying to write a plugin to  
> change the way rhythmbox search the song when I enter words in search  
> bar. ( i.e : if i put "pop | hip hop", rhythmbox will search for all the  
> entries that have "pop" PLUS all the entries that have "hip hop" ...,  
> and more over.... )
> Im wondering if I can do this with python only ? Cause from python I  
> don't know how to connect to a widget in rhythmbox ( search bar is a  
> widget ) , and once it's connected, is it possible to override the  
> searching function of rhythmbox ?
> Can you suggest me a way to do that ? Thanks :)

There is no way to do this at present.  A while ago, I did some work on this,
which you can see here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508750 and
I might commit that soon.