GSoC Report: Week of Mon 29 June

[Leo Franchi]

On Jun 29, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Alejandro Wainzinger wrote:

> Just a quick update.  The media devices refactor hit recently, a bit
> more rushed than I'd wanted but time is of the essence.  A review of
> this code exposed many things which I already was going to make
> prettier and/or fix, but also many things I did not think of.  I'm new
> to using code review tools, but they seem to be useful, although it
> will be better to submit reviews in smaller chunks from now on, since
> we don't need to keep stuff stuck in our local git repos anymore ;).
>
> So, real news: initial playlists support is in!  Currently, Ipods and
> MTP devices' playlists will be loaded when the device is in, and are
> visible from User Playlists, appendable, and when the device
> disconnects, the playlists are removed.  This is an accessibility
> issue to some degree, we have to somehow tell the users that their
> playlists are over there, since they're used to the old Media Devices
> tab that just had everything in one place.  I'd like Leinir or anyone
> else's input on this.  Currently playlists can not be modified,
> renamed, or deleted, as many of these actions have been hardcoded in
> to work only with SqlUserPlaylist, but I will soon be working to
> generalize this code, which should benefit future
> UserPlaylistProviders =)
>

Woohoo!!

maybe all the massive complexity in Bart's PB is starting to make  
sense? ;)

leo\\