extragear/multimedia/amarok/src

[steven robinson]

I agree. At the moment I use dcop to turn it off after a certain amount of
time when going to bed. To have this as an option within amarok itself along
with "stop after current track" would be great. If there is to be such a
dialog, perhaps also "Stop after X tracks" as well?


On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>
wrote:

> On 7/7/08, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
> > 2008/7/7 Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>:
> >
> > > SVN commit 828798 by markey:
> >  >
> >  > Remove the "Stop" action menu, which provided the following two
> options: "Now" and "After Current Track".
> >  >
> >  > Reasoning for removal:
> >  > * It added an extra sub-menu in the systray menu. When you pressed
> Stop, another menu cames up, which was a hassle.
> >  > * It added an extra arrow in the main toolbar, which looked quite ugly
> and confusing.
> >  > * Seems that the "Stop After Current Track" feature was not very
> popular.
> >  >
> >  > If anyone is against the removal, please speak up now.
> >
> > Yes, I found this feature really useful, and am against it's removal.
> >
> >  I agree however, that the secondary popup menu was really annoying and
> >  out of place. We either need to have simply the stop action in the
> >  menu or menu with a default action associated withit.
>
> I've been thinking about this, and I have come up with a simple solution:
>
> We could have an additional entry in the main menu, saying "Stop
> After..". Clicking it, you'd get a dialog, which let's you choose
> between two options:
>
> * After current track (default)
> * In XX minutes
>
> This would provide even more functionality than the original feature,
> e.g. you could also use it as a timer for going to sleep. But it would
> also be less obtrusive.
>
> Good compromise?
>
> --
> Mark Kretschmann
> Amarok Developer
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