[Gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 102301] Changed - bonoboizing gst-player properly

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Changed by michael at ximian.com.

--- shadow/102301	Wed Jan 15 10:20:58 2003
+++ shadow/102301.tmp.7734	Fri Jan 17 04:14:44 2003
@@ -104,6 +104,39 @@
   video/avi
   video/fli
   video/mpeg
   video/raw
 
 is that all? (with apt-get install gstreamer-universe of 0.4.2)
+
+------- Additional Comments From michael at ximian.com  2003-01-17 04:14 -------
+Well; the design of bonobo-activation is entirely intended to ensure
+that you _do not_ have to activate anything to query it's
+capabilities. If you had to activate every component available simply
+to satisfy a simple query, then performance would be incredibly dire.
+Adding this capability for one app will screw everyone, every-query so
+it's not going to happen ;-)
+
+Integrators will typically ship a full set of types that are
+supported; alternatively you can do some fun magic to ensure that this
+is setup when gst-player is built / installed, by doing a sed on the
+.server file.
+
+Otherwise; you get to install a new .server file (with duplicate
+information in it) per gstreamer component you install.
+
+This all militates in favour of having a longish list of supportable
+mime-types in the .server file, and encouraging people to install a
+working sub-set of the myriad plugins that are provided. I think your
+list Kang would be great.
+
+I believe that the .server file is also mis-named; it should be called:
+
+GNOME_GStreamer_GstPlayer.server
+
+so it's correctly namespaced; some bad habits are creeping in there if
+we're not careful; it also needs a dual sed action - such as in eg.
+nautilus, to do first the $(libexecdir) substitution, and second the
+intltool i18n stuff. We also need to make sure we don't ship the built
+files I think.
+
+Anyway; hope that helps, looking forward to a beautiful, working control.