Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Session Presence Plugin

["William Jon McCann" <mccann jhu edu>]

Hi,

On 3/28/07, Alex Jones <alex weej com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've coded a plugin to pay attention to changes in desktop session
> presence (i.e. "is the user here or not?"), and pause/resume Rhythmbox
> as appropriate.
>
> I was wondering if there was a better way to deal with the logic of
> having something automatically pause Rhythmbox than what I've done with
> a "paused by us" flag. I could also monitor playing state changes to
> decide if someone is overriding it, but I don't know if I'm just barking
> up the wrong tree by doing it this way. I'd think it would be nicer to
> somehow impose a state of suspension on RB internally, rather than just
> automatically hitting play and pause.

A few variations on this theme:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-ac43c8f33bc700a5e298e6a82ded0e8bb9b33043
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347426
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423829

Jon