Re: Identifying iPod and iPhone-like devices using Solid (was: Amarok review request)

2011-11-05 Thread Matěj Laitl
On 27. 10. 2011 Bart Cerneels wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 16:05, Matěj Laitl ma...@laitl.cz wrote: On 25. 10. 2011 Bart Cerneels wrote: Looks like quite a few pretty ugly hacks are needed for proper iP* detection with the current mediadevice codebase. In the near future (post 2.5

Re: Identifying iPod and iPhone-like devices using Solid (was: Amarok review request)

2011-10-28 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey, On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 04:05:33PM +0200, Matěj Laitl wrote: In an ideal world (in my opinion): * PortableMediaPlayer::supportedProtocols() would return a list containing ipod for all iPod-like devices (it should just parse /usr/share/media- player-info/${ID_MEDIA_PLAYER}.mpi) *

Re: [Kde-hardware-devel] Identifying iPod and iPhone-like devices using Solid (was: Amarok review request)

2011-10-28 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey, On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 02:13:26AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: It looks like libgpod should indeed give us a very nice way to identify the device. It will export the relevant information (device, custom name of device, icon, etc) as udev attributes. It turns out that this does not work

Identifying iPod and iPhone-like devices using Solid (was: Amarok review request)

2011-10-26 Thread Matěj Laitl
On 25. 10. 2011 Bart Cerneels wrote: Looks like quite a few pretty ugly hacks are needed for proper iP* detection with the current mediadevice codebase. In the near future (post 2.5 release) we should together try to find a simpler and easier to maintain solution. Thanks for your review,