Elegance -- some suggestions for amarok first run

[Thomas Lübking]

Am Friday 30 July 2010 schrieb Ben K:
> Myriam, why are you so resistant to constructive feedback?
I didn't read that... at least in this context ;-P

Using KWallet presently is the only viable solution, and also a very good 
solution - for KDE users ... ;-P

> For the many, many Gnome Amarok users, Amarok is the only program prompting
> for kwallet. I literally get prompted for a password every time I start
> Amarok.
FYI: this is somehow on the road
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec

other than this you /can/ keep kwallet open during a session,
lmb on the systray icon > settings > configure wallet
uncheck the "close because of blahblahblah ..." items

You'll get prompted everytime you log in, but that's unavoidable (you'd have 
to pass your last.fm password otherwise)

> I use last.fm, so I don't mind so much. For those that don't, the
> preferred behaviour seems foolishly obvious: don't bother them with an
> un-needed prompt.
Well, yes. I was actually quite pissed when amarok attempted to access 
kwallet, since (at least then) no reason was given or (unlike for eg. kmail) 
obvious to me.

So a nice dialog basically saying "Amarok wants access to kwallet for last.fm" 
alongside an optional answer (checkbox, whatever) "No thanks, don't use 
last.fm" and maybe a help out button "What is last.fm?" might be a good idea 
for first run users...

> I realise Amarok is a KDE app, but a focus on KDE shouldn't act as
> blinkers.
Storing passwords in cleartext would be no good option either (and one should 
not even suggest it) so the only alternatives on non KDE environments until 
the above spec is present were to 
- disable last.fm support :-(
- ask and do not store the last.fm password (no gain at all...)
 
Thomas