Rhythmbox Sharing

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 06:13:27PM -0400, Lukas Sabota wrote:
> Seems pretty cool.  What other applications have avahi support?  I
> believe gaim does?  This functionality seems a bit hidden, perhaps a
> wiki page could be created?  Or maybe for edgy some improvements could
> be done to make it more apparent. (ie: In the sharing tab, there could
> be a label that says "Click here to install packages required to detect
> other network music.  Warning:  This opens network ports".  Or something
> similar.)

Enabling sharing doesn't open any additional ports; it's installing the
avahi stack which does.

The long-term strategy for this is to install avahi by default, but
disabled, and display a warning like the one you describe when the user
tries to use the functionality for the first time.  However, this is work
which has yet to begin.

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 - mdz