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by mariusor
627 days ago
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Funny you mentioned playerctl. Due to the fact that over time its scope expanded from a simple MPRIS based control application, into a full blown library with various unneeded (by me) features. Therefore as a starting point for the scrobbler daemon I wrote the simpler mpris-ctl: https://github.com/mariusor/mpris-ctl, which does just the control and meta-data output parts that playerctl has, and only depends on libdbus. And concerning your last point, are you advising someone that built at least one MPRIS tool to read the spec? :P |
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The whole comment was for the general HN audience who might not be aware of MPRIS.
The general problem I keep seeing is silos; we've had the XDG standards/specs for decades, yet keep reinventing new, stupid, and broken ways to do things. Under X11 it was normal that every window got a border; under Wayland, GNOME doesn't want to adopt a protocol where a window can ask the compositor to paint a basic border, instead tells SDL to link against libadwaita. XScreenSaver has been telling apps to do "while sleep 60; do xscreensaver-command --deactivate; done" which worked well enough for decades; to "modernise" that, we have a DBus protocol which makes an app grab a cookie, and if it fails to return it (e.g. because it crashed) - the screensaver remains inhibited forever. Trying to use (or improve upon) a FOSS desktop is death by a thousand papercuts.
Thank you for your work.