A couple of suggestions

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Monday 02 July 2007, Rich wrote:
> On 2007.07.02. 15:33, Ivo Bonev wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > first I have to say that I installed amarok before 2 days and I already
> > LOVE it. It is really great. I have however two suggestions which might
> > eventually have been proposed, considered or even implemented. Here they
> > are:
> >
> > 1. Proxy settings
> > I understand that Amarok is a KDE app, but it can (and should) be run
> > under Gnome too. For Joe, a gnome user, it is not so intuitive that he
> > needs to change the proxy settings in KDE's control center (apart from
> > changing them with the gnome tool for the rest of the system). This
> > means that when Joe goes into a new environment (laptop's env. changes
> > fast) he needs to change proxy settings in 2+1 places so that he can
> > listen to streams with amarok. It could be nicer if amarok could check
> > out gnome settings too.
>
> this would probably have to be integrated at some kde/gnome
> interoperability level, not in each application.
> this way, setting a proxy in one of the desktop environment's settings
> would propogate it to environment variables, other des and whatnot

Right.  For things like lyric and wikipedia fetching it uses the settings in 
KDE's control center alone.  But what Rich said is a nice goal, and I'm 
hoping (but haven't been able to find out) that in KDE4 you have an easy way 
to add proxy settings to an application.

>
> > 2. Music on a share
> > Alice uses amarok on her laptop and at home she has a samba share with
> > music which is auto-mounted on her laptop. However when she is not home
> > amarok tries to query this media in vain as it is then not mounted.
> > Timeout does not exist or is taking too long forcing Alice to remove
> > this part of the media and add it each time she is (not) home.
> > It would be nice to be able to add "remote" media which is first (at
> > start and eventually in intervals) pinged and if not reachable marked as
> > "not currently usable" or whatever however allowing the local media to
> > be played. In this way when Alice gets home and gets connected to her
> > samba, the remote media is again available.
>
> this should be working just fine. first, make sure you are running
> latest version of amarok.
> second, verify that 'dcop kded mediamanager fullList' returns list of
> your drives.

What Rich said -- make sure it returns a list of your drives.  Also see 
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Dynamic_Collection

--Jeff