[desktop-discuss] Any interest in porting gtkpod and libgpod into solaris?

[Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland]

Brian Cameron stated:
< Sean/Brian:
< 
< >< Does the Rythmbox depend on gtkpod and is there any legal issue about 
< >this?
< >
< >  Nope.  Rythmbox works out of the box with iPod, for me at least.
< >  Connect iPod, up pops Rythmbox.  Rather nice in fact.
< 
< I'd assume that you build libgpod and then rebuilt rhythmbox with ipod
< support?  Perhaps if you have an iPod set up in "hard drive mode" it
< would "work" like any other external hard drive with rhythmbox, but I'd
< be surprised if rhythmbox allowed you to interact with the internal
< iPod database if you didn't build it with libgpod.

 Sorry, me misleading folks.  I ddin't rebuild rhythmbox with libgpod.
 I just use it to browse and play the files.

 I use gnupod to populate me ipod.  gtkpod's quality isn't there yet.

< 
< At the moment, the JDS desktop team is doing research to determine if
< Sun can legally distribute libgpod, gtkpod, or other tools that allow
< iPod support out-of-the-box.  Since Apple may own patents which may
< restrict our ability to ship this code, we need to first determine
< that we can legally do so before we start including such solutions
< with Solaris.
< 
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