Bug 412074

Summary:	Multimedia Controls - Process Name\Multiple Instances
Product:	[Applications] kdeconnect	Reporter:	J <unfold1911>
Component:	common	Assignee:	Albert Vaca Cintora <albertvaka>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	matthijstijink
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description J 2019-09-19 17:56:10 UTC

SUMMARY
Using multiple instances of a media application for example VLC creates each instance as "VLC media player <1>" "VLC media player <2>" etc. it is the name being picked up by KDE connect and displayed in multimedia controls, however when playing something it changes to the media currently playing. having multiple instances of the same application makes it difficult to know which application is which in multimedia controls.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Get Vlc media player
2. Go to Interface options in VLC and uncheck use one instance
3. Open a few VLC instances and have a video file open in each
4. Go to multimedia controls in KDE connect and look at the picked up instances

OBSERVED RESULT
Process Name is used in multimedia controls which makes multiple instances appear as ordered lists

EXPECTED RESULT
Multimedia controls should pick up the name of the file open in the player or the title to make it unique from the other instances of the same application


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Gentoo Linux
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.60.0
Qt Version: 5.12.3


Might be related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258692 but i'm not sure why its not fixed then

Comment 1 Matthijs Tijink 2019-09-19 19:42:58 UTC

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, so let me summarize:

Currently, if there are multiple players with the same name (e.g. multiple VLC instances), they get named "Name", "Name [2]" etc.
This makes it unclear which instance is which in the player selection dropdown.
You propose including the media artist & title in this dropdown, to make this clearer.

Is that correct?

Comment 2 J 2019-09-19 22:55:56 UTC

(In reply to Matthijs Tijink from comment #1)
> I'm not entirely sure what you mean, so let me summarize:
> 
> Currently, if there are multiple players with the same name (e.g. multiple
> VLC instances), they get named "Name", "Name [2]" etc.
> This makes it unclear which instance is which in the player selection
> dropdown.
> You propose including the media artist & title in this dropdown, to make
> this clearer.
> 
> Is that correct?

Yes this is correct, only it's any identifiable info so it should be:
media artist || title || anything else like file name

Comment 3 Matthijs Tijink 2019-09-20 10:37:03 UTC

We don't have the filename, but we can add the other things.

Comment 4 J 2019-09-20 19:18:48 UTC

(In reply to Matthijs Tijink from comment #3)
> We don't have the filename, but we can add the other things.

Anything is good at this point, although i think title is sufficient enough.