The extension FoxyTunes can not work on midbrowser properly

[Zhao Fan]

Bug detailed description:
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The extension FoxyTunes could be installed and uninstalled properly on midbrowser with the author's modified version, but can not work properly on midbrowser. The FoxyTunes player controls doesn’t show up in the status bar at the bottom as in regular Firefox 2.
The modified version has been posted to http://downloads.foxytunes.com/firefox/private/FoxyTunes_2.9.6.1_MidBrowser.xpi, but hasn't been updated to mozilla addon website.

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[Jimmy Huang (jimmyhuang-deactivatedaccount)]

I patched the the FoxyTunes addon to work in MID browser, please download the patched version here.

http://jimmy-ubuntu.jf.intel.com/public/midbrowser/addons/FoxyTunes_2.9.6.1_MidBrowser_patched_v1.xpi

[Zhao Fan (fan-zhao)]

Jimmy, actually I am not sure if it's proper to reopen this bug for you. I did see you have integrated the foxytunes addon and it can partially work. However, the major functionality of foxytunes is to invoke media player to play music from browser from my understanding. For instance, if I install foxytunes on my laptop, I may want to use it to invoke windows media player to play music, and use "play", "stop", "next track" buttons foxytunes provided to control the music playing. But the foxytunes for midbrowser can only be used to invoke some online media player, and all music playing can only be controlled by media player embedded in webpage but not foxytunes. It would be good if foxytunes could be used to invoke moblin-media to play music and control the playing, but I am afraid it would be big effort. What's your idea?

[Zhao Fan (fan-zhao)]

Let me reopen the bug until we reach agreement :)

[Jimmy Huang (jimmyhuang-deactivatedaccount)]

Fan,

I would consider this a feature request rather than a bug. The reason is Foxytunes do not support Moblin-Player at all for now, if we do want it to work like other online media players, then we'll need to make Foxy Tunes support the D-Bus calls moblin-player uses, or have the moblin-player expose its API to the plugin. It would be something nice to have, but I don't really know if we are really ever going to support this. My suggestion would be to close this bug, for now, unless Foxy Tunes do not work for online players as expected, otherwise, it becomes a big effort to start adding features to projects we don't really own. I think what we can do is talk to the author of add-on and see if he's willing to add support for Moblin-Player, and if Moblin-Player has a set of APIs he can use, then I don't see why he wouldn't do it.

[Jimmy Huang (jimmyhuang-deactivatedaccount)]

The addons are not in POR, and this specific add-on requires modification to the UI layout so that it works properly on MID browser's toolbar, so I am going to change this to be in the wishlist.