phononserver phonondevicesrc OpenFlag, askToRemove

[Dawit A]

Cannot help you out with your question, but I think you would be best
served if you asked it over at the kde-multimedia mailing list...

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Edgar Fuß <ef at math.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> I hope I'm right on this list with my question.
>
> Is there a reason for phononserver.cpp to open the phonondevicesrc config file with KConfig::SimpleConfig, not ::NoGlobals?
>
> Why would anybody care? Because installed hardware is a system option, not a user preference?
>
> The real story is somewhat longer.
> We (Uni Bonn Maths) run some 150 computers using KDE as the desktop.
> From a user's point of view, all machines are equal. All have the same codebase installed, home directories are on NFS. Five persons in an office share three computers, people log in to a computer in the printer room, a professor logs in to his secretary's machine etc.
> Of course, computers are not equal from a hardware point of view. So, if switching between non-identical machines, KDE will ``inform'' users that his sound cards got removed.
> My idea around that was to list all possible sound cards in /etc/kde4/phonondevicesrc and mark them as hotpluggable. However, that is undermined by phononserver using the ~/.kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc configuiration exclusively.
>
> Patching phononserver.cpp to open with ::NoGlobals seems to work. But is this the right thing to do? Would it be better to have some configuration option in a phononserverrc (or kdeglobals to start with) not to complain about vanishing sound cards or those matching a pattern?
>
> Ignoring the message by putting it in a global kdedrc seems not to be an option:
> 1. You still get ``informed'' that a warning was surpressed.
> 2. We would need to put n*m messages (n sound cards times m localizations, currently n=26 and m around 6) in there. Also, this seems volatile wrt. re-phrasing of messages.
>
> Comments welcome.
>