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[Awesome Donkey]

NOTE: This will require renaming MC's .desktop file from media center 21.desktop to mediacenter21.desktop - the information about this can be found here.

If Media Center can run these commands when installing, it can be integrated into Ubuntu's sound menu for native control, which is outlined in this topic.

This command *should* add Media Center to interested-media-players;

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gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.sound interested-media-players "['mediacenter21']"
This command *should* add Media Center to preferred-media-players;

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gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.sound preferred-media-players "['mediacenter21']"
And finally this command will remove Media Center from the sound menu;

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gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.sound blacklisted-media-players "['mediacenter21']"
Thoughts? Getting this working by default would be pretty nifty and would be one step closer to a more native support feel.

[imugli]

+1

[astromo]

Sensible suggestion. Is this philosophy applicable to the MC Linux default OS?

Or, is there a process whereby on install the OS is interrogated so that a conditional sub-process can be run?

[bob]

Sensible suggestion. Is this philosophy applicable to the MC Linux default OS?

Or, is there a process whereby on install the OS is interrogated so that a conditional sub-process can be run?

For now I just silently run those commands (if gsettings exist) on post-install
I didn't see an agnostic way of doing the equivalent.

[Awesome Donkey]

Have you had any luck getting it working with spaces in the .desktop file?

[bob]

Have you had any luck getting it working with spaces in the .desktop file?

I didn't try, I just used your commands verbatim, I thought it was referring to the executable.

[Awesome Donkey]

Unfortunately it won't work with the spaces in the name of the .desktop file which is what it tries to use. I'll do some research tomorrow to see if there's a way around it.

EDIT: Okay, I have it. It looks like you can install a second .desktop file without spaces, then use the following in that .desktop file to keep it hidden from the menus (so there's only one MC entry in the menus);

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NoDisplay=true
That should do it!

[bob]

Unfortunately it won't work with the spaces in the name of the .desktop file which is what it tries to use. I'll do some research tomorrow to see if there's a way around it.

EDIT: Okay, I have it. It looks like you can install a second .desktop file without spaces, then use the following in that .desktop file to keep it hidden from the menus (so there's only one MC entry in the menus);

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NoDisplay=true
That should do it!

Ok, I'll give this a try in the next build.
Thanks for tracking it down!