Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Error Boxes on Start-Up

[Calvin Walton <calvin walton gmail com>]

On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 06:08 +0000, John Frankish wrote:
> Starting rhythmbox-0.13.2 on a live CD type distro results in a "snow
> storm" of small windows complaining about, for example, missing
> libgpod so iPod functionality will not work, missing libdmapsharing so
> upnp sharing will not work, etc, etc
> 
> Is there a way to compile rhythmbox to disable these annoying windows?
> 
> As none of these things are required to play mp3 files locally, could
> the error messages be passed more gracefully (i.e. to an error log,
> stdin or similar) to allow the user to start rhythmbox in a resource
> saving minimum configuration. The small error window could be
> generated when a user attempts to use the functionality in question so
> that they know to load the missing libs.

These error windows are all caused by optional plugins failing to load.
For a live CD distriution, it would make sense to by default disable (in
GConf) the plugins which have missing prerequisites to avoid this
problem. No recompilation is needed, just some config changes.

The plugins could still be enabled manually by the user if the required
libraries are installed later.

-- 
Calvin Walton <calvin walton gmail com>