more... On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 19:03, Frederik Nnaji <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Sense, > > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 18:44, Sense Hofstede <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> During a previous discussion on not adding an application bucket to >> the Unity launcher somehow the discussion ended up at discussing the >> behaviour of Rhythmbox integrated in the Sound Menu. When Rhythmbox >> would be exited while playing or paused it was supposed to keep >> running in the background while the Sound Menu would show controls and >> the current song. When Rhythmbox would be exited the state of the >> music player was supposed to be restored on relaunch, as can be seen >> at <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoundMenu#compliance>. >> >> However, in the 'application bucket' discussion someone immediately >> answered the question whether Rhythmbox actually can persist state >> between two runs. Answer: no, and it would be a lot of work (read: >> partial rewrite of some important parts) to support this. So it is not >> possible to get state saving support for Rhythmbox in Maverick. >> >> What to do with this? Should we try to get state saving support in >> Rhythmbox (and Banshee?!) for Maverick, against all odds? I'm not sure >> if we want to make potentially destabilising changes to Rhythmbox' >> code in such a short period of time. >> That would leave two options: do not try to persist state between two >> runs of Rhythmbox and scrap that part of the specification, or don't >> exit Rhythmbox when someone quits it while it is not playing, but keep >> it running in the background. >> >> The latter option would add another running process and would fool the >> user into believing (s)he would have fully exited the player. It would >> also mean that some plugins could still be broadcasting the player, >> even though it should have exited according to the specification and >> if we use that behaviour consistently across the whole desktop also by >> the users' expectations. >> >> > With this post, the topic is beginning to ring bells in my head. > What is playing the song, when Rhythmbox exits? Gstreamer or Rhythmbox? > If we close the application window, we are not closing Rhythmbox, we're > only hiding its GUI. > > While i'd personally prefer embedding Music Library Management into > Nautilus (Nautilus elementary+tracker+desktop-is-homefolder+flat > semantically organized FS), making Rhythmbox quite obsolete (same for > eMail), i can see the path this is about to take. > > Before i spill more beans on how little i actually know about what i'm > saying here, let me repeat what we have discussed so much now: > > remove the close button, hide Rhythmbox into the indicator-sound menu, so i > can unhide the window via "show Rhythmbox" > do this for any app that places itself into the sound menu with controls. I can imagine *banshee *totem *vlc to start with..
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