[mpris] MPRIS misdesigns

[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Marc-André Lureau
<marcandre.lureau at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Who said anything about reworking a gazillion media players? Of course
>> that points out the futility of complaining about an API that can't
>> easily be changed, at least futile as far as the short term is
>> concerned. But apparently your fixes are "obvious", just put them
>> together on the wiki and we can work out a MPRIS 2.0 perhaps.
>>
>
> May I suggest we move the spec on a repository, if possible git. And
> send patches for comment on this mailing for discussions.
>
> I am not sure who is sort of maintaining the spec. So maybe we should
> go with some code a reviewing process here first.
>
> Would that make things easier?

This all sounds reasonable to me. I just wrote a document in git with
Markdown, it worked well. We could use github.

> I think XMMS2 and VLC using git, so that should not be a problem.
>
> regards,
>
> PS: Lennart is sarcastic, but he is really kind, if you had some doubts ;-)\

I believe you. Lennart isn't the first to complain about MPRIS as if
they couldn't do anything about it, so it just set me off!

Ian