Elegance -- some suggestions for amarok first run

[Marcel Hilzinger]

Am Freitag, 30. Juli 2010 11:38:37 schrieb Myriam Schweingruber:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:15, Marcel Hilzinger
>
> <mhilzinger at linuxnewmedia.de> wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 30. Juli 2010 10:52:29 schrieb Myriam Schweingruber:
> > [...]
> >
> >> > - kwallet-
> >> > Second question on amarok start is about kde briefcase. Why will
> >> > Amarok access my passwords, when I did not even set up any within
> >> > amarok? So the same suggestion here: just ask the user about kwallet,
> >> > when he entered some user data for last.fm or whatever. Many users
> >> > will never do so.
> >>
> >> It does not access your passwords, but Amarok loads the last.fm module
> >> on start which can't be done otherwise for logical reasons: imagine
> >> the delay every time you switch to another local music item, people
> >> would complain that Amarok is slow on every item change. Better have a
> >> delay at start than having a delay each time a new  module needs to be
> >> loaded.
> >
> > Please reconsider: If a user chooses to set up kwallet or has already set
> > up kwallet otherwise, then amarok will prompt for the kwallet password on
> > each startup, even if you are not using last.fm.
>
> Sorry, but then you don't understand kwallet or have not set it up
> correctly: I use kwallet for all applications that require a password,
> I set those to "Allow always", and only the first application that is
> started when I log into KDE will start the wallet, which most of the
> time is not Amarok. 

That's the difference. For me it's Amarok...

:-)

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