Bug 263917

Summary:	Now Playing plasmoid disables the "play/pause" button after using it. Seems to be IPC problem
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Evengard <evengard>
Component:	widget-nowplaying	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	aseigo, aspotashev, asraniel, web.accounts
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Evengard 2011-01-21 20:26:45 UTC

Version:           2.4.0
OS:                Linux

There is a good plasmoid called "Now Playing" (shipped by default with KDE). In generally it works well with Amarok, but starting from version 2.4.0 it has a bug. When I press the "Pause" button, the button greys up, become disabled, change image to "Play", Amarok is pausing... And the "Play" button remains disabled. No way to click it to restart the playing. When restarting playing from the context menu - the "Play" button becomes enabled, but clicking on it disables it again, changes to "Pause" image and does nothing to amarok.
I am posting that in Amarok product, because some other widget - Now Playing Controls from kdelook acts similirally.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Amarok 2.4.0
2. Install the Now Playing widget (i have installed it on the panel itself, but on the desktop the behaviour is similar)
3. Start ANY song in Amarok
4. Press the "Pause" button
5. Notice the result
6. Press the "Play" button
7. Notice the result
8. Resume the song from the Amarok context menu (or from the GUI itself)
9. Notice the result on the plasmoid
10. Click again on the Play button
11. Notice the result


Actual Results:  
Described above

Expected Results:  
Should work as it worked with 2.3.x

Comment 1 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-01-22 11:55:17 UTC

Reasigning to plasma, as we do not maintain this widget.

Comment 2 Aaron J. Seigo 2011-01-27 23:01:41 UTC

try with Plasma Workspace 4.6; there were fixes made to this widget for this kind of problem.

Comment 3 Evengard 2011-02-02 14:48:27 UTC

The bug persists with the packages provided by Arch. It is somewhat worse - sometimes the widget even doesn't see that Amarok is running and displaying that nothing is playing (while Amarok plays a song)

Comment 4 TRTech 2011-04-06 17:52:26 UTC

Same problem here. KDE 4.5.1, Kubuntu 10.10, Amarok 2.4.0

Comment 5 Beat Wolf 2011-05-10 18:13:25 UTC

Same here, kubuntu 11.04. Sadly the now playing plasmoid isn't usable right now :(

Comment 6 Evengard 2011-10-09 23:05:25 UTC

Seems to be fixed with kde 4.7.2 (Arch Linux packages)