Phonon oddities

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Christoph Spielmann <spielc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I've been experiencing some really curious stuff when it comes to
> phonon. As i don't need a full-blown desktop environment (i just use
> some application from both kde and gnome mostly kde tho) i kinda created
> my own window manager consisting of compiz, compiz-deskmenu and awn. One
> of my fav programs is and probably will forever be amarok. Since
> kde-4.2.2 when i start amarok without doing anything phonon seems to
> play music (progress bar is showing some activity) but i can't hear a
> tone. I found out that i HAVE to start systemsettings before i start
> amarok and execute the following steps to actually hear something: Go to
> "Multimedia" and check or uncheck the "Show advanced devices" checkbox
> and click on Apply. After that sound works perfectly but now this whole
> procedure starts to get on my nerves. I tried to find out how (or better
> said if) i can somehow automate this whole process using qdbus but till
> now i haven't found a working solution. So does anybody experience the
> same issues and have a working solution? Actually any input would be
> welcome as i ran out of ideas.

I'm a big fan of structuring text with paragraphs. I refuse to read
unstructured blobs of text.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org