Bug#529690: suggested UI

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 529690 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
forcemerge 532349 529690
thanks

Le mardi 30 juin 2009 à 16:25 +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit :
> I have just started having rhythmbox watch a particular
> folder and on every startup I get a succession of such
> pop-ups. For clarity, they look like this:
> 
>     Search for suitable plugin?
>     The required software to play this file is not
>     installed. You need to install suitable plugins to play
>     media files. Do you want to search for a plugin that
>     supports the selected file?
> 
>     The search will also include software which is not
>     officially supported.
>                             [ Cancel ] [[ Search ]]
> 
> Looking at "Import Errors", I can see that rhythmbox is
> invoking this for a whole bunch of files which I don't ever
> want to "play", including
> 
>  * "Internet shortcut"
>  * "BitTorrent seed file"
>  * "Parchive archive"
>  * "RTF document"
>  * "Brasero project file"
> 
> Also,
> 
>  * jpg -> "Internal GStreamer problem; file a bug"
> 
> The media folder I am watching is a local sync of my
> Iriver's contents. When it is watching a folder, it
> remembers which files it has seen before (presumably). It
> would be nice if it could remember that you have told it
> not to look for a codec for a particular file or to ignore
> a particular file or types of files too. As it stands, I
> get these 15-20 pop-ups on every rhythmbox invocation.
> 
> I would suggest a number of changes:
> 
>  * include the name of the file that it is trying to decode
>    and the mimetype it believes the file to have in the
>    dialogue. I could then (more) easily identify and remove
>    the offending file if I wanted to. (I would resort to
>    this, or renaming or zipping the files, to avoid this
>    problem should my other suggestions be deemed unsuitable)
> 
>  * add a tick-box "ignore this type of file in future" to
>    the dialogue, so it looked like this:
> 
>     Search for suitable plugin?
> 
>     The required software to play the file
>         "filepath" or "basename of filepath"
>     of type
>         "inferred mimetype"
>     is not installed. You need to install suitable plugins
>     to play files of this type.
>     
>     Do you want to search for a plugin that supports the
>     selected file? (The search will also include software
>     which is not officially supported).
> 
>      [ ] do not ask about this type of file again
> 
>                                 [ No ] [[ Yes ]]
> 
>     (notice I've changed Cancel/Search for No/Yes since
>     "Cancel" would imply that the contents of the tick-box
>     did not matter as the action had been nullified)
> 
>  * add a menu somewhere to let you adjust the list of
>    mimetypes for which you have ticked the box. Then, if a
>    user clicks No and the current list of ignored mimetypes
>    is empty, you could pop up an informational dialogue box:
> 
>         To adjust the list of types for which
>         rhythmbox will not prompt for codecs,
>         navigate to Edit -> Preferences and then
>         select "Foo bar baz".
> 
>                                         [ Ok ]

Known issue. Purge gnome-codec-install until gstreamer is made to not
call it unconditionally.

Cheers,
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
: :' :
`. `'   “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling
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