Support starting music player via D-Bus activation

[webmastak]

Support starting music player via D-Bus activation

[eonpatapon]

That's something I would like to do. The problem is how to determine which player to show in the menu. I thought I could show the last used player and be abe to start it.

[joshtriplett]

GNOME2, at least, had a setting for "default music player"; I don't know if GNOME3 still does. If it does, that seems like a good place to start.

Barring that, "last music player I used" seems pretty sensible, as does "the only music player available via D-Bus".

[eonpatapon]

Indeed GNOME 3 has a default music player setting so I could use that
default setting. Then if another player is used, display it by default
instead of the GNOME 3 default setting.

About DBus activation, I don't see any reference to this in the MPRIS2
spec.

Thanks for your input

Le vendredi 23 mars 2012 à 01:46 -0700, Josh Triplett a écrit :

GNOME2, at least, had a setting for "default music player"; I don't know if GNOME3 still does. If it does, that seems like a good place to start.

Barring that, "last music player I used" seems pretty sensible, as does "the only music player available via D-Bus".

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[joshtriplett]

Indeed GNOME 3 has a default music player setting so I could use that default setting. Then if another player is used, display it by default instead of the GNOME 3 default setting.

I'd suggest just always using the GNOME 3 music player setting; if a user wants to use a different music player, they can set it as the default music player. I can't think of any scenario where it makes sense to have one music player set as the default in GNOME but have this extension activate a different music player by default.

About DBus activation, I don't see any reference to this in the MPRIS2 spec.

On the front page http://www.mpris.org/2.1/spec/ : "This allows clients to list available media players (either already running or which can be started via D-Bus activation) "

[eonpatapon]

I think you're right about the default setting.

About MPRIS activation all players doesn't follows this so it can't be used effectively. Anyway I don't think I'll need it.

In /usr/share/dbus-1/services/ I have only clementine that follows the standard : org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.clementine.service
For Banshee it is: org.bansheeproject.Banshee.service
For Rhythmbox: org.gnome.Rhythmbox3.service
And no quodlibet there ;-)

[joshtriplett]

Bug filed for Quod Libet: https://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/issues/detail?id=949