On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 14:46, Peter Backlund wrote: > - Rhythmbox opens mp3 by default, but has no license problem dialogue. * committed rhythmbox-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/rhythmbox--main--0.6--patch-21 I solved this in the 0.6 branch by simply not advertising the audio/x-mp3 MIME type in rhythmbox.applications if it was compiled without MP3 support. Solving it in 0.7 is harder, because we use GStreamer to dynamically load and play files. So as soon as you install say a GStreamer mp3 plugin, you get Rhythmbox support for it. But as far as I can see, bthe gnome-vfs .applications framework is entirely static. There's no way for Rhythmbox to start advertising e.g. audio/x-mp3 support only if you have the GStreamer plugin. It's a very messy layer-crossing problem. A start at solving it correctly might be to have an application include in its .applications: mime_types_dynamic=rhythmbox --list-mime-types This would generate the keys at runtime, and then we'd need a program to go through all the applications and cache the output of the dynamic mime types listings. But even then it's difficult to implement --list-mime-types in Rhythmbox, because 1) GStreamer presently has no way to enumerate which audio MIME types it supports 2) GStreamer MIME types and GNOME MIME types may not necessarily correspond Yeah, it's a messy problem...ideas welcome!
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