Exaile

Current song plugin port to 0.3.0

Bug #420905 reported by Aly Hirani
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Exaile 0.3.1

Bug Description

Since the API changed in 0.3.xx from 0.2.xx, the Current song plugin was no longer compatible. Current song is a plugin that pushes the current playing tracks details to Pidgin to be set as "Now Playing". Attached herewith is the port of the plugin to the 0.3.0 API. As far as the license of the plugin is concerned, I am still waiting on an email from the author of "IM Status" plugin (from 0.2.xx) from which Current song (for 0.2.xx) was derived from. It was decided on IRC, that if the original author is unreachable, that the plugin be released in GPLv2+ (my choice would then be GPLv3).

PS: I do not know Python. This port could be aptly described as "hacking", so if I didn't code something properly, please let me know.

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Aly Hirani (alyhirani) wrote :
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Aly Hirani (alyhirani) wrote :
reacocard (reacocard)
Changed in exaile:
status: New → Confirmed
milestone: none → 0.3.1
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Aly Hirani (alyhirani) wrote :

I have not heard back from the author. Hence, it is safe to assume that the plugin would have been licensed under GPLv2. In order to keep a better compatibility of license with Exaile, I guess I'll release this plugin under GPLv2. I'll add the appropriate headers and upload a new version of the plugin once I get the time/chance.

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Aly Hirani (alyhirani) wrote :
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reacocard (reacocard) wrote :

plugin added r2448

Changed in exaile:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Mathias Brodala (mathbr) wrote :

Aly, could you clarify what "the current tune status" is supposed to mean? And moreover "prpl"? (Both from the PLUGININFO)

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Aly Hirani (alyhirani) wrote :

The description from PLUGININFO was extracted directly from the 0.2.xx's description (since in 0.2.xx, the description was embedded inside the .py)

"prpl" is a short for "purple" and is the internal keyword used to describe protocols such as yahoo,msn, etc (used by libpurple obviously - the library behind Pidgin).
"current tune status" refers to the ability for a protocol to show the "now listening to"/"now playing" information.

Hope that clears things up.

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Mathias Brodala (mathbr) wrote :

Yes, thank you. I rephrased the plugin description to make this clearer.

reacocard (reacocard)
Changed in exaile:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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