NowPlaying DataEngine

[Jeffery MacEachern]

Was this ever taken care of?
 - Jeffery MacEachern



On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 14:24, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> hi ...
>
> looking at a bug report this evening i glanced into the source code of the
> nowplaying dataengine[1], and was pretty shocked to see that all the dbus
> calls made in the mpris backend are synchronous.
>
> which means that if the calls block (say .. because the media player freezes
> or stalls for some time) that anything using that dataengine will as well
> (e.g. plasma-desktop). ugh!
>
> that would make a rather nice junior job, i think. would be a nice way to
> become familiar with QDBus as well, without having to start it from scratch,
> but rather just modify the existing code.
>
> any takers? :)
>
>
> [1] kde-workspace/plasma/generic/dataengines/nowplaying/
>
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