Review Request 118406: Notify the user if the location containing the media is inaccessible.

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

> On June 5, 2014, 8:36 a.m., Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Usability review:
> > Since I lack the skills to picture it from the diff: When exactly is the notification shown? Is it shown as soon as the media is supposed to be played? If so, I think it could be done in a more subtle way: Grey out the entry in the playlist and just skip over it to the next entry int he playlist (like Amarok does) and show the message in a tooltip on mouseover on a pointer device or on tap on a touch device.
> > If it's already done in a similar way, then it's fine for me ;)
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> R.Harish  Navnit wrote:
>     I've added a screenshot which should help. This is a little different from the way amarok deals with the same error. If the media is inaccessible, the message is shown in the player screen. 
>     Is it okay, If I go ahead in the way I am or should look to implement something similar to what amarok does ??

Does PMC really have to be restarted to detect that the location is now accessible? That's not really a nice situation.
The whole message seems overly dramatic to me, especially in a playlist. Imagine you have a playlist with 50 songs in it, and three of them are on a location which isn't accessible. What would you prefer?
a) Having to close PMC, make the location accessible and then restart it
b) Just skip over those three songs and happily listen to the other 47

If we're not in a playlist, the problem should rarely occur because the browser only shows currently accessible media anyway, right?


- Thomas


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On June 5, 2014, 8:47 a.m., R.Harish  Navnit wrote:
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> (Updated June 5, 2014, 8:47 a.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma, Shantanu Tushar and Sinny Kumari.
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> Bugs: 333764
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333764
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> Repository: plasma-mediacenter
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> Description
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> If a media(in a playlist) is located in an inaccessible location, then the user is notified about the same. 
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> Diffs
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>   mediaelements/mediaplayer/MediaPlayer.qml 98f1d2c 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118406/diff/
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> Testing
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> 1. Load media to a playlist.
> 2. Unmount the device containing media.
> 3. Check if the user is notified of the location being inaccessible
>    --yes, the user is notified
> 4. Mount the device containing media and play a media from playlist.
>    -- The media plays properly.
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> File Attachments
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> wihtout_i18n.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/06/05/3dc148a5-c4da-4d27-a713-e63922cbcef8__wihtout_i18n.png
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> Thanks,
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> R.Harish  Navnit
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