[Goodies-dev] media tags, Contents of Goodies-dev Digest, Vol 65, Issue 12

[Nick Schermer]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Nick Brake <nick.brake at gmail.com> wrote:
> Editing the libexo line worked but things were not so simple when
> thunarx-1 had to change to thunarx-2 as thunarx-2 deprecates
> thunar-vfs-1. I asked myself how there was a working version of the
> thunar-media-tags-plugin in xubuntu and went to get the source from
> there. All the answers were in a few patches at
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/thunar-media-tags-plugin/
>
> thunar-media-tags-plugin_0.1.2+svn-r04939really0.1.2.orig.tar.gz
> Patches contained in
> thunar-media-tags-plugin_0.1.2+svn-r04939really0.1.2-3ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz
>
> 01_port-to-thunarx-2.patch
> 02_port-to-exo-1.patch
> 03_fix-crash-with-ogg-video-files.patch
> 04_fix-implicit-dso-linking.patch
>
> After applying those everything just worked and I was able to make my
> minor edits.
>
> Should I get in touch with Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>, who
> appears to be the author of the patches, to get the changes rolled
> into the official source tarball on the goodies website? I'm not at
> all familiar with how things like that work, nor am I a developer or
> programmer, just someone with an itch to scratch. :) I wanted to
> rename tracks using a "-" without spaces between track/title, mostly
> because I dislike having to type "\ " from the command line when
> traversing directories. I've included patchfiles but I don't recommend
> they be included. There is a "todo" in the source for user specified
> format, while I doubt my ability to add in that kind of functionality,
> I'll play around with it sometime and send a message if I make it
> work.

I merged all the patches and fixed the critical open bugs. I don't see
special need for your patch since the plugin supports custom formats
too.

Nick