Bug 220566

Summary:	Amarok uses internet plugins despite having disabled them
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Christian González <christian.gonzalez>
Component:	Internet Services	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nhn, sylvain.pare, tuomas
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.2.1.90
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Christian González 2009-12-29 18:53:01 UTC

Version:           2.2.1.90 (using 4.3.85 (KDE 4.3.85 (KDE 4.4 Beta2)), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.31-17-generic

In Amarok, setting all "Internet services" to disabled in the configuration dialog, it still shows "Podcasts", "Librivox.org" and "Cool Streams".

This things should not be displayed - when all "Internet" plugins are disabled.

Comment 1 Nikolaj Hald Nielsen 2010-01-03 00:58:24 UTC

"Librivox.org" and "Cool Streams" are scripts and thus handled differently than the plugin based services. To disable these, look in tools->script manager.

I will look into the podcast directory not obaying being disabled.

Comment 2 Christian González 2010-01-03 11:35:39 UTC

yes, maybe - from a programmer's point of view. That's exactly the problem - the average user (and even me, with some programming experience) thinks, hey, I disabled all the internet plugins, why the heck is librivox still there?

That's what we've gotta learn in KDE. From a user's point of view it makes no difference wether it's a "script" or a "plugin". ;-)

Anyway, thanks for the answer -
are the scripts enabled per default in Amarok, or just installed in Kubuntu? is ist possible for such a script to hook itself into the "plugin" area (to show up there)? Or something similar?
Banshee has a feature "disable all plugins that require internet access" - this would be useful here too maybe.

Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-01-04 13:56:00 UTC

Changing to ServiceBrowser, pushed to wishlist

Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-06-04 18:01:14 UTC

*** Bug 274919 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Tuomas Nurmi 2025-01-06 11:01:44 UTC

I think this was actually fixed in July 2024 with commit https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/commit/777195d457ce0488f5e03248b9c600fa4b9c9435 , closing.