Amarok & plasma themes

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

I don't think it is fair to expect Amarok specific dataengines to be
available when Amarok is not running.

The way I see it, if you drag the track-info applet to the desktop,and
then quit Amarok, the applet should go into some dormant state untill
Amarok is started again.

On 8/2/07, Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at gmail.com> wrote:
> --CCing this to panel-devel for reference--
> From amarok-devel ML:
>
> 2007/8/2, Maximilian Kossick <mkossick at gmx.de>:
> > On Thursday 02 August 2007, Ian Monroe wrote:
> > > On 8/1/07, Maximilian Kossick <mkossick at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > > While I don't think that it really matters whether the theme information
> > > > is stored in amarokrc or plasmarc (although it would certainly be nice to
> > > > have everything in amarokrc) the default settings have to work, and they
> > > > do not now.
> > >
> > > It does matter, Amarok isn't Plasma and not everyone will even have
> > > Plasma installed.
> >
> > No, it does not matter, because plasmarc will be automatically created the
> > first time a modified value is written to disk. It may just look a bit odd to
> > have a plasmarc if the only installed KDE application is Amarok.
>
> I believe it does matter, for 2 reasons:
>
> 1. Backup of settings and the kiosk-tool. These deal with the rc file.
> An rc file should contain settings of only one application. The kiosk
> system is complex enough as it is.
>
> 2. What if many other applications start embedding plasma? plasmarc
> will contain settings of all of them. What's the use of separate
> rc-files then? Imagine the clutter and user confusion.
>
> So having amarok settings in plasmarc might work as a temporary
> solution but we better find a suitable answer soon, if possible before
> our first release.
>
> And for drag'and'dropping applets to the plasma corona (desktop) I
> suggest a system that uses plamoid packages that are included in
> Amaroks binaries. So d'n'd would be logicly the same as installing a
> plasmoid with GHNS. I guess the dataengines would have to be available
> outside of Amarok, maybe even by default. Is there a DBUS API for
> adding dataengines?
>
> Bart
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