[Bug 362182] Re: Amarok 2 lost support for iPhone-like devices - Choice between 2 and 1.4?

[Nico]

On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 02:26 +0000, chris wrote:
> I mostly use arch these days, but I've learned a little about this
> problem recently, and thought I'd share (since the kde guys were kind of
> rude about it in their upstream bug tracker).
> 
> The recent commit to amarok should allow it to properly detect
> iphones/touches -- *if* the device is recognized by solid, which means
> it must also be recognized by hal.  sshfs mounts don't show up in hal
> because no hardware is actually involved, and hal is for managing
> hardware.  So, something in amarok or solid, or (less likely) hal needs
> to change for sshfs to become viable in amarok2.

This is exactly what I descibe in the bug.


> 
> An option which may be viable, which I'm experimenting with, is
> iFuse[1].  iFuse attempts to communicate with iphones/touches via native
> Apple protocols over USB.  Since the connection is via USB, the device
> is recognized by hal and solid, at least in theory.

Well, no.

iFuse is just like SSHFS. Both use FUSE, and fuse does not declare
volumes in HAL.

> 
> For me, on arch, theory breaks down rather quickly.  The hal portion of
> iFuse is dependent on an fdi file included with iFuse, which doesn't
> exactly work (at least not on arch).  I've been hacking on it, but I'm
> not quite there yet.

This fdi file is for when HAL detects the USB device. It is no
declaration of the FUSE volume.

> 
> There is a deb package for debian experimental that might be a good
> place for ubuntu users to start.  It might even work out of the box for
> you.
> 


I even tried compiling it from source, just in case I was wrong. I was
not.

Nico

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Amarok 2 lost support for iPhone-like devices - Choice between 2 and 1.4?
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