Review Request 111655: Reimplement RecentlyPlayedListWidget

[Mark Kretschmann]

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Ship it!


Ship It!

- Mark Kretschmann


On July 24, 2013, 2:55 p.m., Konrad Zemek wrote:
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> (Updated July 24, 2013, 2:55 p.m.)
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> Review request for Amarok.
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> Description
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> Reimplement RecentlyPlayedListWidget
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> Rewrote RecentlyPlayedListWidget from the basics. There was a major
> inconsistency in this widget, where tracks were added to it if they were
> recently played at all, but the time shown was the "Last Played"
> statistics which is only updated after whole song is played. This
> caused gravely incorrect data to be displayed (see bug 302485).
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> There were two different methods of solving the inconsistency: focusing
> on the "Last Played" time, and adding songs to the widget only if the
> "Last Played" changed; and focusing on recent plays completely
> disregarding "Last Played". I opted for the latter as I felt it fits the
> widget's nature better.
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> Because we can't rely on already available data, the widget needs to do
> its own housekeeping. It saves its data on shutdown, to be restored
> on next startup. One other major benefit of this approach is that
> widget's data remains correct even if collections change, while
> previously tracks from removed collections would disappear.
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> Finally, I added the feature to add tracks to playlist directly from the
> widget, provided that the track exists. Adding to playlist works
> consistently with other parts of Amarok, with standard double-click and
> middle-click behavior.
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> BUG: 302485
> FEATURE: 296090
> FEATURE: 279263
> REVIEW: 111655
> FIXED-IN: 2.8
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> Diffs
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>   ChangeLog 87e4708a6330e7a612db59052a50eef053294b06 
>   src/context/widgets/RecentlyPlayedListWidget.h caa78039b891511ca36ada8f61cd4f776d1f3c6d 
>   src/context/widgets/RecentlyPlayedListWidget.cpp 6ea501affcf6e61d237002e15f7ed4e26989b91b 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111655/diff/
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> Testing
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> Manual.
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> Thanks,
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> Konrad Zemek
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