Thanks for the reply Sam. Yes that would be sad. It's been my goto for a few years now. Obviously I don't personally have the skills to even consider it, plus I spend a lot of my time in areas with very limited internet.
I did do some more testing and compared versions to the one I run on Ubuntu and after rolling back to the version I previously had installed I started getting even stranger behaviour with this plugin (showing Artists instead of Genre in the Genre Tree and still slowing load time by some orders of magnitude.) This brought me to a suspcion the issue may lie somewhere else, prime suspect being Python as that's what the plugins are built on. Nobody on the Manjaro forum replied saying anything seemed amiss with what Python packages I have installed and didn't really know how to test it further though so have basically ignored it since (and booted into Ubuntu when I have a selection of tracks I want to organise the Genre tag on.) Not really expecting much help here now, from you or anybody else, just want to sign off with a final Thank You for taking the time to respond. Dale. ________________________________________ From: Sam Thursfield <sss...@gmail.com> Sent: 25 July 2019 10:29 To: Dale Powell Cc: rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Plug-in no longer working since update on Manjaro Hi dale, On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 3:46 PM Dale Powell via rhythmbox-devel <rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org<mailto:rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org>> wrote: Is this mailing list even active? Not seen a single other post come through..... The list is working, I see your messages come through. But following this up because it has come to my attention that far more than the plug-in created by my friend has stopped working properly. Even the Alternative Toolbar, which is packaged as default and seems to be the most suggested plug-in for many people's issues on how Rythmbox works as default, does not work properly any more! (Try dragging to reorganise column order with latest version.) Surely the default plugins are something you don't want to break..... Is anything going to be done about getting the program working properly again? I had hoped it might have just happened by now but months later and the situation is still borked! It seems like there isn't much volunteer time available for Rhythmbox maintenance at the moment. Jonathan is/was the only active maintainer in recent times, but the last time he merged a patch in GitLab was 6 months ago. This raises an interesting question of how the project can continue. Software projects work best when there is a dedicated maintenance team to review and merge patches. This requires a good knowledge of the codebase and a continual dedication of time, though. Is anyone interested in taking on such a role? Sam _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
