Default music dir and refactoring of collection config

[Maximilian Kossick]

Congratulations, now you know one person on Linux who puts the music
in ~/Music :)
Are you referring to those XDG environment variable that we had
trouble with a few months ago?
I don't think this has anything to do with this. And it's supported by
Qt anyway. It's probably the job of the linux distro to provide a way
to change the default dir,
not of Qt. And the spec itself allows for that.

The extra click-through would not bother me either (of course, I
usually click on almost anything in any new application that i use,
just to find out what it does)
but the local collection is still going to be the first among equals,
so a special treatment of its configuration could make sense.

Max

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Jeff Mitchell
<kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
>
> Maximilian Kossick wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > a TT labs blog posting [1] describes how one can access specific
>  > locations in a cross-platform way using Qt. I know that Harald wanted
>  > us to adopt the freedesktop spec mentioned there a few months ago, but
>  > nothing happened. Instead of having to configure the collection
>  > directory on first startup, i want Amarok to default to the user's
>  > music directory. The reason I'm sending this mail (I think all of us
>  > would agree that that change makes sense) is that I want to refactor
>  > the collection config to use KCMs and the plugin selector widget, like
>  > it is done for the services. This would make it possible to add config
>  > dialogs for other collections, or even disable collections (Nikolaj
>  > mentioned that he wanted to disable the DAAP collection a while ago)
>  > Unfortunately it would be harder to change the collection directories
>  > using this new aproach (open Amarok's config dialog->collection
>  > config->open config dialog for "Local collection", or whatever it ends
>  > up being called). Do you think it is still necessary to have the
>  > collection directory config in such a prominent place when Amarok i
>  > able to use a sensible default on all systems? (this raises the
>  > question if all linux distros support the freedesktop spec by the time
>  > amarok 2 is released?)
>  >
>  >
>  I had thought, alternately, that XDG was dead, or that KDE wasn't going
>  to support it any longer, or something.  Huh.
>
>  Anyways, I think the change makes sense *provided that* there is a way
>  for the user to specify their music location.  On Windows and Mac it may
>  be pretty prominent, but I don't really know anyone on Linux that puts
>  their music in ~/Music.  So it'd be nice if there was a way to set the
>  user's default music location (in a permanent, XDG way on Linux, or
>  registry way on Windows, or plist way on Mac).  I left a remark on the
>  blog asking if this would be the case.
>
>  As for the extra click-through for local collection, doesn't really
>  bother me.  With abstracting collections, it doesn't seem that the local
>  one (or ones, as I thought would be the case) necessarily deserves
>  special treatment.
>
>  --Jeff
>