Default music dir and refactoring of collection config

[Maximilian Kossick]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Jeff Mitchell
<kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
> Maximilian Kossick wrote:
>  > Congratulations, now you know one person on Linux who puts the music
>  > in ~/Music :)
>  >
>  You weird wacko you  :-)
>
>
>  > Are you referring to those XDG environment variable that we had
>  > trouble with a few months ago?
>  >
>  Yep.
>
>
>  > I don't think this has anything to do with this.
>  It does...from the blog post it seems like on Linux it uses xdg under
>  the hood, but that doesn't really matter at our level.

agreed

>  > 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.
>  >
>  Yes, but my point was...how many lay users are going to figure that
>  out?  Think especially of Mac and Windows users, now...will normal users
>  know which plist to change?  Which registry key?  If Qt can support that
>  it'd be really nice.

Why do we have to change the location of the system's default
directory for music? The user will still be able to change the
directory that Amarok looks for music in.

>  > but the local collection is still going to be the first among equals,
>  > so a special treatment of its configuration could make sense.
>  >
>  There's that singular "collection" again...have we ditched the idea of
>  support of multiple local collections?

Multiple SQL collections are not a priority imo. It should not be too
hard to implement that feature. But one SQL collection is always going
to be more important than the others, for example because it's
actually used by all other parts of Amarok to store data in (which
reminds me, what happened to storing the playlist in the database?)

Max