Unfriendly "Please move your music to [dir]" message on first startup

Bug #719658 reported by Sander D
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
banshee (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: banshee

In a fresh 11.04-dev install, Banshee's first message was, in white on black:

    "Please move your music to /home/sander/Muziek"

For several reasons I think this is not a good welcome:
- the user may not have any digital music yet, so there is nothing to move,
- the user might not be familiar with the forward-slash directory notation, which is hidden well in other GNOME apps,
- the user may have reasons to put music in another directory, and then "File > Import Media" is a better option.

Some suggestions for improvement:
- adding a "Import Media" button in the main screen when the library is empty,
- starting in the Ubuntu One Music Store,
- adding a way to open the ~/Music directory in Nautilus, so that the user can easily drag-and-drop music files.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: banshee 1.9.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-3.30-generic 2.6.38-rc4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-3-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 15 23:00:41 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee

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Sander D (sanderd) wrote :
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Andreas Olsson (andol) wrote :

I agree. Yet, it is an explicit and intended behavior. Hence I will mark this report as a "Wishlist bug".

Changed in banshee (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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