Banshee as a Platform?

Aaron Bockover recently discussed Banshee's modular architecture. Aaron discusses using Banshee as a foundation for managing not only music, and videos but merging with F-Spot to manage photos as well:

The slides from his talk go into a bit more detail.

Jonathan Pobst takes the platform idea one step further and suggests that Banshee's core could also be used to replace YAST's Software Installer UI:

Jonathan says:

Every time I use YaST's Software Manager, I wonder if it would be better implemented using Banshee. Banshee's interface has been tuned for usability, both on its own, and what it borrows from iTunes. Software management is a naturally scary operation, and using an interface that the user is already familiar with could help reduce user fear.

Of course, it would just be the interface pieces of Banshee in a new app, you wouldn't actually start Banshee for software installation.

Another feature I would like to see taken from iTunes/Banshee is downloading/installing in the background. Once I hit Install, go ahead and download the application in the background, and install it in the background. I can click on the "Downloading/Installing.." menu item if I want to see what's going on. Most of the time, I'd rather be looking at other things to download.

I think this is a brilliant idea.