From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NgCnF-0003hn-WC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:51:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A4A0E0860; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:51:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (newton.gmurray.org.uk [81.2.114.237]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB979E0860 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:51:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o1D7piF2012902 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:51:44 GMT X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.0.0 newton.gmurray.org.uk o1D7piF2012902 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmurray.org.uk; s=in200703; t=1266047504; bh=OLxU2y9HmJYBta/aXTJyeBhL0B0BapiPfj+/KX5pmxA=; l=759; h=From:To:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=fRSDLnLyoqqfezCydYonU5/a3L+rBfGWnVKJRwvPYknnm8RKBHng5OaTF7DZsVy/f 1cTVJvjNwvpzQvuMd3X4YWFr5DUJg4OlozjlQ0vWhj1M4zSRoJ7I8PjVR54FkU+yod 18qQqFNumWs/3RgRWYRrYE22WxMXywnaGL4bjCmY= X-BATV: Sendmail BATV Filter v0.4.0 newton o1D7piF2012902 Received: (from graham@localhost) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o1D7pijG012901; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:51:44 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: newton.gmurray.org.uk: graham set sender to graham@gmurray.org.uk using -f From: Graham Murray To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? References: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> <20100209021708.GA7876@waltdnes.org> <20100209102732.188d2125@digimed.co.uk> <20100210125757.GB11270@waltdnes.org> <20100210141843.6777b7c7@digimed.co.uk> <20100211073121.GA14006@waltdnes.org> <20100211165308.7d60980d@digimed.co.uk> <20100213063953.GB7731@waltdnes.org> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:51:44 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20100213063953.GB7731@waltdnes.org> (Walter Dnes's message of "Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:39:53 -0500") Message-ID: <87eikph8tr.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at newton X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: a85b696d-bcc9-4a13-96c1-ee3a73a0b686 X-Archives-Hash: 66a8e9d3fd7b9e77039994890005b99c "Walter Dnes" writes: > - I run Firefox > - I go to live365.com and log in > - I click on an icon, and Firefox starts up an audio player, and passes > it the appropriate URL. > - I start reading/writing emails, whilst enjoying music in my headphones > > The audio player needs to communicate with my email client because...? > So that the email program can add a 'tag' in the signature of outgoing emails so that the recipients know what music you were listening to when composing the email :) I have not seen this in email clients, but would not be surprised if some did, but have seen this in IM programs - both Pidgin and kopete have options/plugins to show the music you are listening to in your status.