Banshee appears twice in the sound menu

[Bertrand Lorentz]

While testing the sound menu integration with Banshee, I noticed that after registering Banshee, it would then appear twice, once as "Banshee" and once as "Banshee Media Player". See the attached screenshot.

The registration is done as follows :
  server.SetType ("music.banshee");
  server.DesktopFile ("/usr/share/applications/banshee-1.desktop");
  server.Show ();

I'm guessing it might be related to the content of the .desktop file, as Banshee has "Name=Banshee Media Player", whereas Rhythmbox has "Name=Rhythmbox"

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

Hi Bertrand,

>The registration is done as follows :
> server.SetType ("music.banshee");
> server.DesktopFile ("/usr/share/applications/banshee-1.desktop");
> server.Show ();

That does seem to be problem alright. If you can get me something to test against I can fix this from my end.

[Bertrand Lorentz (bertrand-lorentz)]

Here's a gzip file of the Sound Menu extension binary which should allow you to reproduce the problem. You need to have Banshee 1.7.4 or above and follow these steps :
1. Gunzip the file
2. Copy the .dll to ~/.config/banshee-1/addins/
3. Make sure the indicate-sharp package is installed
4. Start Banshee
5. Enable the Sound Menu extension in Edit > Preferences > Extensions
 -> Banshee appears as "Banshee" in the sound menu
6. Quit banshee
7. Make sure Banshee is listed in ~/.cache/indicators/sound/familiar-players-db.keyfile
8. Restart the indicator-sound-service
 -> Banshee is now listed as "Banshee Media Player"
9. Start Banshee
 -> Banshee is now also listed as "Banshee", so you have the situation shown in the screenshot.

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

Bertand, followed those instructions but no registration :(
The mpris interface came up nicely but no indicate noise ?

[Cody Russell (bratsche)]

I get to #5 on the list.. I enabled the extension in Banshee, but I did not see Banshee listed in the sound indicator at that point. When I exit Banshee I also don't find it listed in that file .cache/indicators/sound/familiar-players-db.keyfile

[Cody Russell (bratsche)]

And a little more serious issue is, I enabled the Sound Menu extension.. then Banshee's systray disappeared, as you would expect. But when I disable the Sound Menu extension I still don't see Banshee in the systray. It's easy to re-enable, but is there any chance that could be automated by the extension? Seems potentially confusing to users.

[Bertrand Lorentz (bertrand-lorentz)]

Here's a new version of the extension binary. The only differences are that the "Show Banshee in sound menu" preference is enabled by default, and it writes a log message when trying to register.

Please replace the previous version of the .dll with the content of that gzip file, run "banshee --debug" and post the output here

[jan2ary (jan2ary)]

I have no entry for banshee in the sound menu but for rhythmbox only.
Where can I find the indicate-sharp package? I already installed packages listed by apt-cache:

$ apt-cache search indicate-sharp
libindicate-gtk0.1-cil - CLI bindings for libindicate-gtk2
libindicate-gtk0.1-cil-dev - CLI bindings for libindicate-gtk4 - development files
libindicate0.1-cil - CLI bindings for libindicate4
libindicate0.1-cil-dev - CLI bindings for libindicate4 - development files

but I have the following message while starting banshee with --debug:

...
** (Banshee:6597): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /home/andriy/.config/banshee-1/addins/Banshee.SoundMenu.dll could not be loaded:
     Assembly: indicate-sharp (assemblyref_index=9)
     Version: 0.4.1.0
     Public Key: 2e8e49ba7d172cb0
The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly (/home/andriy/.config/banshee-1/addins/).

** (Banshee:6597): WARNING **: Could not load file or assembly 'indicate-sharp, Version=0.4.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=2e8e49ba7d172cb0' or one of its dependencies.
...

[Bertrand Lorentz (bertrand-lorentz)]

@jan2ary :
You need libindicate0.1-cil version 0.4.1, as the binary was built against this version. Which version do you have ?
You might also prefer to way a bit for a proper banshee-extension-soundmenu package, which should be making its way to Maverick

[jan2ary (jan2ary)]

$ apt-cache policy libindicate0.1-cil
libindicate0.1-cil:
  Installed: 0.4.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.4.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.4.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status