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

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan d14n org>]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:08 PM, John Frankish <j-frankish slb com> 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

If the live CD doesn't include the libraries required for these
plugins to work, then it shouldn't include the plugins either.

> Is there a way to compile rhythmbox to disable these annoying windows?

No. These errors indicate a broken install, which is not something we
should be working around or ignoring.

> 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.

This isn't really possible, and it's an awful lot of effort to go to
in order to save a few hundred kb of shared libraries.