[mpris] Playlist extension

[Conor Curran]

Good stuff Johannes.

I suggest then we try to agree upon the final spec.

As we spoke of before these were the guidelines.

- a playlist is a set of tracks, without any assumption as to how the
set is determined
- you can list the available playlists, with their respective name and 
icon.
- you can start playing a playlist.
- can query to see if there is a current active playlist (a playlist 
which is playing)
   and if so fetch it.
- a signal to inform that the playlist has changed

Ian raised concerns about

>  Regardless the spec needs some more "conceptual" defintion of what sort of
>  playlist should be returned


Obviously we want simple static playlists (of the traditional sort). Do 
we want to go down dynamic playlist route ?

 > and the intended use-case to ensure some
>  uniformity between players.

My simple use-case which I'm sure everybody is tired of hearing by now 
can be read here.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoundMenu#Playlist%20submenu

Conor


On 17/11/10 00:29, Johannes Sasongko wrote:
> Hi Conor,
>
> On 17 November 2010 03:51, Conor Curran<conor.curran at canonical.com>  wrote:
>> Not many takers by the looks of things. What exactly is the problem with
>> this playlist extension besides it not covering every edge case you may want
>> with playlist control ?
>> Don't understand the lack of interest considering I have a major client
>> (Banshee) willing to implement it.
> FWIW, I'm happy with your last draft. We (at Exaile) will likely still
> leave it out of our core interface, but at least I won't feel dirty
> adding support for this as a plugin.
>
> -- Johannes