On the shiny white computer my girlfriend owns it is possible to drag an image from any web browser to the place the album art icon is supposed to be.
On my system using banshee the album art has to be saved on the local hard disk first - which is an additional manual step that can be avoided.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: banshee 2.2.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 23 10:20:30 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: banshee
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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