Summary: | amarok requires too many internet connections - provide an offline mode | ||
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Product: | [Applications] amarok | Reporter: | Michael Zanetti <mzanetti> |
Component: | Context View | Assignee: | Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist> |
Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | stuffcorpse, sylvain.pare, vedant.kota |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 2.2.2 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 251199 |
Description
Michael Zanetti
2010-03-02 11:33:13 UTC
It seems the video applet is active. Also make sure you don't use last.fm scrobbling and disable the following applets: Lyrics, Wikipedia, Videoclip and Photos. The same of course also for all 3rd-party scripts that might use the connection (almost all do) and make sure you have no streams in your saved playlists. Is this still relevant? Yes it is. While it is true that the network load can be reduced by removing all widgets int the context view, it still would be great of there would be an "offline mode". It's not too cool if I have to remove all widgets every time I want to use amarok and a GSM connection and then reconfigure the whole context view at home just to be thrown away again the next time I'm using a GSM connection. So my proposal would be to add an "offline mode" entry somewhere in the menu bar, where all widgets in the context view just use the last available information or just display something like "Offline mode - No data available. Click here to re-enable online mode". There has been some work done on making many of the web requests through a single interface. Not all has been converted however; but eventually this interface would be made to receive notifications from solid, as well as forcing it to suspend/disable any requests. I might continue to work on this after I'm done with all the things on my docket. Hi I just open a new bug repport here https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251199 I think this two bugs should be solved together like Rick W. Chen just said. it is the reason why I report here my new report. CU Created a patch that fixes the bug: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110934/ Please review and make a icon for the "Amarok" menu item "Offline Mode". Cheers. |