Version: 2.3.1 (using KDE 4.5.1) OS: Linux For me it is not a wish but really a bug. Here currently a have a poor internet connection. And some time I play to FPS game ( Nexuiiiiiz :) ) and I like to play with some background music. And that hurts here. While playing quite well despite my poor connection, thanks nexuiz code, at each time amarok changes to a new track It is like I lost my connection during at least 5". And this is dues to all the context widgets I have which are fetching their content from internet. But hey! what for!? I don't even have amarok window on! So for me fetching/updating context widget's content from internet when amarok's window is not visible is really not the best way to do. I thinks when amarok is minimized it should not fetch any context content and fetch it as soon as amarok is maximized. Thank you! Best regards Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: at each next track
Why don't you disable the Context View pane all together? See the Views menu -> unlock layout. Then you can just disable it, that should solve the problem, no?
Why should I have to do any thing ? Amarok rocks or not ? :) It is painful to have to disable something and then re-enable it back after.. Plus... no it does not even solve it! not context view enabled but it does still fetched content.. a real bug! I will look at the code to see if I am able to do something NB: long live to Xonotic, the open source fork of Nexuiz
You don't understand: if you enable applets that fetch content from the internet, then it will happen, regardless if the Amarok window is visible or not. If you don't want it to fetch content, then just disable the Context View or don't load the applets that do fetch content from the net. Either you use the internet or not, your choice. Since you don't want it to use the internet you don't need to have these applets enabled anyway.
Excuse me Myriam with all the respect I have to you I totally disagree with you. Amarok is a music player and tell me if I am wrong but It is not mean to be used only in a Amarok's windows on mode(maximized). So I will not remove context widget each time i will minimized Amarok!(It is completely stupid. at least is way more stupid to do this rather than to disable content fetching in minimized mode) Like I will not removing my WiFi's configuration just because I am changing of AP; no the software permit a better usage. And sorry but saying to a user that he does not understand is not relevant here as I do understand what it is going. I am just saying that in my opinion it should not work like this because we can do much better.
Setting status correctly. AFAIK this is still valid for 2.3.2 as well.
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I separate this bug to point the real bug here https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274919 then it remains that this could be a goos feature to implement: don't fetching if amarok is minimized.
sorry forgot to change statu
Thank you for the fast feedback :)
It's an enhancement after all, marking this as wish. Not sure if this ever going to be implemented since it requires some work in the context applet architecture.
agreed this is a wish! :) thx cu
This issue is still there in 2.8.0. When is this expected to be implemented?
(In reply to H L Prasad from comment #12) > This issue is still there in 2.8.0. When is this expected to be implemented? Care to give a hand?
Yes, I would be interested in helping to the extent I can. I am new to KDE SDK, Amarok codebase. But, I am proficient in C++ and know Qt reasonably. I use Kdevelop extensively in my work. Kindly suggest a way to start. I am using Ubuntu 14.04 with KDE 4.13.2.
Never mind. Got https://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development. If anything specific which will be useful in connection with this bug, please suggest.
Well, it is not a bug, it is a feature request, so you might check on the amarok-devel@kde.org mailing list for more information before starting to work on it.
Personally, I think that if the Context Widget is not visible, it should also disable the context widgetss fetching behaviors. Not just when Amarok is hidden, but also when the context widget is hidden or closed. And since there are context widgets enabled by default, this is a bug, not just a feature request. If you had to enable each context widget yourself, then I would see it as a feature request but since you have to disable them after each amarok install, this is a bug.
A non implemented feature is not a bug, it is a feature that needs to be implemented. It would be a bug if the feature is implemented and doesn't work.
Created attachment 88324 [details] Patch for Wikipedia and Lyrics context applets
Could somebody please try the patch sent in the previous comment and check its usability?
Please submit your patch to http://reviewboard.kde.org for the group Amarok. You will need an account on ghttp://identity.kde.org for that. Then please provide the link to reviewboard here.
Already done.
Please see https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119848/
@Myriam: Any chance of this going to mainstream soon?
(In reply to H L Prasad from comment #24) > @Myriam: Any chance of this going to mainstream soon? I am not responsible for code review nor for releases, sorry. Just be patient.