Hello, I am a banshee developer (not a maintainer). I have answer to few point outside and someone said to me to go on this mailing list to show our answer I see few arguments against banshee that I will try to answer: - Stability: Imo, RB is more stable but banshee has more features which bring bugs as always. We are working very hard to fix as many bugs as we can to be more stable.If you take a look to release, you will see that a lot of bugs are closed foreach cycle. And some bugs come from outside (gstreamer, GCONF,...) - GTK3 migration/ custom widget & theme: Banshee use a custom widget named ListView to replace TreeView in order to have better performance when scrolling in big list. We have migrate it and all the code to GTK3 but we are stuck on a bug on gtk#. I am working on it currently to fix it. - startup time: A bug is open and it is seems to be fault of ubuntu1 extention : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650350 - I heard that you apply a lot of patch for integration but I need more information to answer to it. Banshee have a extention system very powerfull. So I guess we can move that things in extention to reduce the amount of patch. - issue with ARM arch: I do not understand that point because Xamarin business model is based on mobile and work with ARM and we have no bug open for that. I know that some people used it and do not encounter any issues. - Banshee team is very reactive and add a lot of new features with each cycle. For example in last cycle we add Genre/Year filter and DVD support which was both waited by a lot of user.
Anyway, if you have question about what we are working on and what is priority to be back in ubuntu, you can contact us on the mailing list ( banshee-l...@gnome.org or banshee-devel-l...@gnome.org) or on irc(#banshee). regards, Olivier Dufour
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