> On Aug. 10, 2013, 7:26 p.m., Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> > I'm not so sure about the warning that is shown when an unwritable UMS 
> > collection is loaded. First of all it seems to me this would belong on a 
> > higher level, as other collections could be read-only as well. Second, I'm 
> > not sure a warning is called for. It's not a critical situation. And last, 
> > doesn't it suffice to show an error when the actual writing failed?

There won't be an error message when the actual writing fails, as the user is 
not offered certain operations (move/copy to/organize) for read only 
collections. :-)

I am not sure what would be a good solution. I have to admit that I added the 
warning as an afterthought after having fixed the isWriteable() for UMS. The 
reason was that i found it highly intransparent why certain operations are not 
longer offered.

The question is how to make it transparent to the user why move/copy/org. are 
disabled for a certain UMS collection?

Perhaps the solution is to leave isWriteable() as it was (always return true 
for UMS) and to generate error messages when operations fail?


- Frank


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On Aug. 10, 2013, 4:44 p.m., Frank Meerkoetter wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 10, 2013, 4:44 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for Amarok.
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> If an UMS-collection is non-writeable (think freshly created ext4 on an 
> USB-stick) a copy/move to
> collection will silently fail. It can only be seen in the debug logs on the 
> console.
> 
> The reason is that the UMS-collection is not actually checking if its 
> writeable. Its just assuming
> to be always writeable.
> 
> My change consists of two parts:
> 1. I check if the UMS-collection is actually writeable (mount point and if 
> set the "music folder").
> 2. To give the user a hint what is going on I added a warning message, 
> informing the user that
>    this collection is read-only (otherwise he might be confused why certain 
> operations (move/copy/organize)
>    are missing.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   src/core-impl/collections/umscollection/UmsCollection.h 749ff81 
>   src/core-impl/collections/umscollection/UmsCollection.cpp 028966e 
>   src/core-impl/collections/umscollection/UmsCollectionLocation.cpp 1cd1ba8 
> 
> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111991/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> I have tested with an USB-Stick containing an ext4 filesystem. First i had 
> the base-dir owned by root.root (non-writeable), next i made it writeable and 
> verified that its correctly detected as such. Next i created a "Music" folder 
> and configured it for this USB-Stick. I checked that it was detected as 
> writeable. Next i made the "Music" folder non-writeable and checked that 
> amarok also detected that.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Frank Meerkoetter
> 
>

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