[Feedback] DBus Interface Needed Enhancements

[Miguel Angel Alvarez]

El Sábado, 11 de Agosto de 2007 22:42, Sébastien Laoût escribió:
> I would add those "requierements":
>
> I want to implement "Party Lock" to lock the screen when playing full
> screen during a party (like a screensaver can lock the screen).
> But this locking forbid guests to browse the music collection in Amarok,
> pick the artist they want...
> So I would like to add an iPod-like browsing: show a list of artists, when
> clicking one, animate and show a list of all albums of that artist, etc.
>
> When the guest is clicking to play an album, I would want to have a DBus
> call to:
> 1. Replace the playlist with either:
>    - all songs
>    - all songs from artist "X"
>    - all songs in album "Y" from artist "X"
>    - this song, and this one, and this other one
>    - the content of the playlist "Z"
>    Basically, there should be 5 calls for those 5 use cases.
I think you can implement that yourself by simply using "void playMedia(KURL)" 
and generating those playlists from the database. 
>    And of course, a call to get all plyslists, and another one to get all
> the songs of a playlist.
Actually you can query the playlists table.
> 2. Start playing that new playlist starting at the first item.
>    I think if we clear and replace the playlist, the playPause() call
> already do that, so nothing to add.
A new playlist always start playing at the first item. 

> And now, a bonus:
> The calls "listAllArtists()", "listAlbumsOf(artist)"
> and "listAllSongsOf(artist, album)" are a bonus because this can be done
> using the query() call.
>
> Having those calls is only a help for developers not knowing query() (like
> me at the start, I learned it quite late) or people not wanting to dig in
> the database to know what tables exist.
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