Re: [Kaffeine-user] Better integration of Kaffeine with media:/ in KDE

[Christophe T. <hf...@fr...>]

Le Jeudi 14 Juillet 2005 15:58, David Anderson a =E9crit=A0:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running KDE 3.4.1 (from Fedora Core 4) with Kaffeine 0.6 (from Livna).
> Kaffeine is great, and my preferred DVD player - thanks for the work on i=
t.
>
> When I put a video DVD into my drive, it is automatically recognised, and
> in media:/ it displays the device with a video DVD icon, and the mouseover
> tip says "DVD Video Disk", which is all very nice.
>
> When I left-click on the disk, it says:
>
>  "Open 'media:/hda'?
>
> Type: DVD Video Disk
>
> Open With... / Cancel"
>
> So I think, "Hmmm, it's a shame that it doesn't just open it immediately
> into Kaffeine, but never mind. I'll press 'Open With...' and choose
> Kaffeine".
>
> But when I do this, KDE mounts the drive, and makes an attempt to copy
> something or other to /tmp/kde-david/kaffeinelAbmHb.tmp (zero-size file
> results) and Kaffeine opens and does nothing.
>
> I'm not sure exactly how this should be fixed in KDE and/or Kaffeine so
> that it "just works" (i.e. plays the DVD in Kaffeine, or possibly in the
> Kaffeine KPart embedded into Konqueror).
>
> This bug here in bugs.kde.org which has been assigned to the developer of
> the media:/ kioslave is very similar - maybe he needs to be co-operated
> with so that KDE and Kaffeine work together in the desired way??
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D102827
> I think I've read about some way in which applications can indicate in
> their .desktop files that they recognise media:/ urls... (possibly this is
> in upcoming KDE 3.5) I think that if Kaffeine's .desktop file did this and
> then Kaffeine was modified so that it recognised the media:/hda and was
> informed by KDE that it was a Video DVD, then Kaffeine would know that it
> should use the method for playing DVDs?
>
> I did look in the archives to try and find if this had come up before -
> apologies if I missed it.
>
> Kind regards,
> David Anderson


Give cvs a try.
Or wait the end of july for 0.7

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Christophe Thommeret