Scrobbling through proxy does still not work in RC 1

[Jan Holthuis]

Just for the record: Is this fixed in Amarok 2 FINAL?

Thanks in advance,
Jan Holthuis
Am Montag 01 Dezember 2008 15:03:06 schrieb Jeff Mitchell:
> Leo Franchi wrote:
> > On 1 Dec 2008, at 12:07, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> > 
> >>> Jan Holthuis wrote:
> >>>> Hi!
> >>>> Some time ago I reported, that Last.FM scrobbling through doesn't  
> >>>> work (→ http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/2008-October/006961.htm 
> >>>> l). Unfortunately, it does still not work in Amarok 2 RC1  
> >>>> »Narwhal«, which is a bit disappointing, because it's the only  
> >>>> bug that prevents me from using Amarok2 every day. Is there any  
> >>>> chance »scrobbling through proxy« will make it into Amarok 2.0  
> >>>> Final?
> >>>>
> >>>> PS: Is it possible, that it's not amarok's fault, but related to  
> >>>> bug #155707 (→ http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155707) ?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks in Advance,
> >>>> Jan Holthuis
> >> This isn't our fault, really.
> >>
> >> We use KDE network settings, and KDE still does not have working proxy
> >> settings in 4.1.  I know it was a task for 4.2 but I have no idea if
> >> they have actually fixed it or not.
> >>
> >> When KDE in general gets working proxy support, then Amarok's  
> >> scrobbling
> >> and other http lookups (like Wikipedia) should work too.
> > 
> > Sorry Jeff, but this is incorrect. For scrobbling, we are using the  
> > liblastfm provided by Last.Fm, which will soon be released  
> > independently. As this is a Qt-based lib (and not KDE-based), it does  
> > not use KIO to do its network connections, but rather the  
> > QNetworkAccessManager framework.
> > 
> > There will be a way to set a QProxy for the library to use. However, I  
> > have so far been unable to figure out how to actually *retreive* a  
> > QProxy or similar description of the proxy settings from the KIO libs.
> > 
> > So that is the blocker which we need to solve before scrobbling will  
> > work through proxies. It has nothing to do with network settings  
> > directly in 4.1.
> 
> OK, but it's a related issue.  One of the reasons, AFAIK, that KDE has
> it difficult doing proxy stuff is that while Qt network classes can uses
> proxies, they don't look at the existing proxy info on the various
> platforms, so they have to always be specified manually, which means you
> need config dialogs and the like.
> 
> I imagine we'll run into the same issue using Qt proxies directly.
> 
> --Jeff
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