On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:40:44AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > Now...onto the user interface. You'll have to bear with me because up > until 30 seconds ago when I tried your patch I'd never actually never > listened to a podcast. It seems like from browsing the web, the > "typical" way is that a web site gives a link, and tells you to copy it > to your music software. Is that right?
I've got about as much podcast experience as you, but I think copy/paste and DnD are the common ways of doing this. Getting browsers to run a helper application after the user clicks on a podcast link isn't going to work, since the RSS is probably sent with a 'text/xml' content-type header. I don't think there are any other ways of getting the podcast URL into a separate application. > Just giving the user a URL entry box seems kind of unfriendly. Is there > anything we can do to make this better? > > It looks like some web sites support dragging an image from the site > into iTunes. I wonder how that works exactly? Maybe metadata embedded > in the image data? Could we parse that? I'm guessing the image is actually a link to the podcast RSS, so dragging it transfers the podcast URL rather than the image URL. There's code in the iradio source for dealing with DnD from browsers (which I stole from totem) - see stations_view_drag_data_received_cb in rb-iradio-source.c. The code for setting up the iradio source as a drag destination starts at line 330 in rb-iradio-source.c. -jonathan _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
