Bug 375505

Summary:	[Feature request] Start Player music when headphones are connected
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Víctor <vmorenomarin>
Component:	Media Player widget	Assignee:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs-null, vmorenomarin
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.8.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Víctor 2017-01-24 16:12:10 UTC

Would be interesting an option in the Audio Volume Settings that the user could enable auto start the default music player immediately when connect the headphones.

Actual Results: 

Nothing happens when the headphones are connect.

Expected Results: 

if feature is implemented, the music player should starts immediately the headphones are connect.

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2017-01-31 14:36:50 UTC

I like the idea. Unfortunately, this isn't trivial.

- What devices should trigger it? Only regular headphone jack, or also USB headphones (I only use the latter)?
- What app should it start? I'm not sure we can tell the "preferred music player", just which app is associated with e.g. audio/* mime types
- Even if we start the app, we can't really control what it will play (ideally it resumes where it left off but we can't control that)

Comment 2 Víctor 2017-01-31 17:41:42 UTC

(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #1)
> I like the idea. Unfortunately, this isn't trivial.
> 
> - What devices should trigger it? Only regular headphone jack, or also USB
> headphones (I only use the latter)?
> - What app should it start? I'm not sure we can tell the "preferred music
> player", just which app is associated with e.g. audio/* mime types
> - Even if we start the app, we can't really control what it will play
> (ideally it resumes where it left off but we can't control that)

Hi.

- I think about jack headphones, but should be in general: jack 3.5 mm, usb.
- When I tell "preferred music player" I refers to your favorite music (or multimedia)Player: Clementine, VLC, Amarok, Cantata...

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2017-09-05 20:29:42 UTC

It's an interesting idea, but there are too many guesses that the system would inevitably get wrong for it to ever work acceptably well. And it's not so hard to just turn on your music player manually. :)