Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] patch for the lyrics plugin

[Gareth Murphy <garethmurphy1 eircom net>]

Not necessarily. This is counter-intuitive and really just isn't the way 
a lyrics plugin should be implemented. A user shouldn't have to put up 
with their internet connection and computers resources being used on 
every single song by fetching lyrics even when they don't want them. 
They also shouldn't have to resort to going through the steps involved 
in enabling/disabling the plugin every time they do/don't want to view 
the lyrics to a particular song.

It's also obvious that the lyrics display won't be able to fit into the 
current main window, so it's going to require a user action to display 
the lyrics somewhere in any case. Therefore, the ideal way to handle 
this would be to provide the necessary options in the UI, and when the 
user 'chooses' to display the lyrics, then the plugin should fetch the 
lyrics from the internet.

Mark Hewitt wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 18:16 +0100, Gareth Murphy wrote:
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> > Actually, loading the lyrics every time the song is changed IS
> > undesirable behaviour. Because the fact is that it's a waste of
> > bandwidth and resources to lookup the lyrics every time a song is
> > changed, when the fact is that people don't tend to want to look at the
> > lyrics of many songs they listen to.
> >     
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> As a user and someone very interested in this plugin, I'd disagree -
> people who don't want to look at the lyrics of songs don't turn the
> plugin on, and those who have seen the lyrics of the song they wanted to
> see and don't want to see any more turn the plugin off, surely?
>
> Mark Hewitt
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