[mpris] Fwd: MPRIS v2 proposal

[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Oben Sonne <obensonne at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/4/1 Mirsal Ennaime <mirsal.ennaime at gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman at m2x.nl> wrote:
>>> Hello mirsal,
>> Hello
>>
>>> As one of the original authors of MPRIS specification and implementation
>>> in VLC I hereby sent you a proposal for extending/updating this
>>> specification.
>>>
>>> I use the MPRIS specification a lot in solutions using VLC. It is an
>>> awsome IPC (Interprocess communication protocol). However for advanced
>>> usage it is quite limited, some information that you can find in media
>>> players user interface are not available through MPRIS v1 specification.
>>> Therefore here my proposal for an extension.
>>>
>>> Please comment on my proposal.
>>
>> I'm sorry about the delay, my personal mailbox got swamped.
>>
>> The first version of MPRIS was written with only audio players in
>> mind, so there were clear lacks in this domain, so adding /ES is IMO a
>> good idea.
>>
>> I have a few objections however:
>> - Rate control methods should reside in /Player, not in /TrackList
>> - /ES related caps should be more granular (I'd add
>> CAN_CONTROL_SUBTITLES and CAN CONTROL_TELETEXT)
>> - CAN_RATE may be better named CAN_CONTROL_RATE
>>
>> There are other issues to be fixed before 2.0 can be released though.
>> Thanks for your proposal, I'm forwarding it to the MPRIS mailing list.
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
>> --
>> Mirsal Ennaime
>
> Nice to here that this useful interface is going to be extended.
>
> The last mail only seems to list changes to a previous v2 proposal. Is
> there a place to review the complete current state of MPRIS v2 ?

Yes, and what is 'ES' and why can't it have a real name?

Also the proposal only has extensions... if we're not breaking
capability with 1.0 it should be 1.1 or something, not 2.0.

Ian