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    Add Banshee.WebBrowser and Banshee.AmazonMp3.Store · cf900630
    Aaron Bockover authored
    This is a big commit that introduces two to-die-for features into
    Banshee. First is a generic GTK WebKit-based embedded browser, called
    OssiferWebView, which extends WebKitWebView. OssiferWebView is written
    in C, because it makes fairly heavy use of WebKit and Soup APIs, for
    which the C# bindings are rather lacking. A simple, easy-to-bind API is
    exposed. In C#, Banshee.WebBrowser.OssiferWebView is available for
    extensions to use for embedding a reliable web browser.
    
    GTK WebKit 1.2.0+ is required. Fortunately, this is very easy to build
    on openSUSE 11.2-era systems.
    
    What is most important though, is the introduction of the
    Banshee.AmazonMp3.Store extension, which leverages
    Banshee.WebBrowser.OssiferWebView to provide an integrated and dedicated
    Amazon MP3 store browser. Music can be browsed, searched, and purchased
    in Banshee just as you would through Amazon MP3's web site in your
    regular browser, however there are two (current) user experience
    improvements:
    
      1. A cookie is always set by Banshee that tells the Amazon MP3 web
      site that a valid Amazon MP3 downloader is installed, thus avoiding
      nagging messages about downloading the installer (which notoriously
      does not work on Linux systems); and
    
      2. Mime-type hooks ensure that when audio/x-amzxml content is
      delivered by Amazon, that it is downloaded and immediately imported by
      the Banshee.AmazonMp3.AmazonMp3DownloaderService. The result being
      that as soon as a purchase is made, the purchase begins downloading
      and importing into your Banshee library automatically.
    
    Further browser improvements and polish will be on the way:
    
      1. Basic back/forward navigation
      2. Searching from within the regular Banshee UI
      3. Ability to log out from within the regular Banshee UI
      4. Lots of other stuff I haven't thought of
    
    I'm not as think as you drunk I am, Ossifer!
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