amz downloader

[Harald Sitter]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
> If you buy music from Amazon you get an obfuscated .amz file which can't be
> easily used to download anything.  Fortunately Amarok comes with a built in
> amzdownloader to fix that.  But it's hidden=true by default so you can only
> use it from within Amarok.  Should we make it displayed in the application
> menu?

No, it was made that way because

a) the thing is somewhat unmaintained (or was a year ago)
b) the thing had no localization
c) looks like, not so goo ... actually really terrible GUI
d) desktop file had terrible name
e) no where in the application is it explained what the application does
f) the application only ever makes sense when one knows what AMZ is,
since one is not supposed to know or care what it is the application
ought not be in the menu

What might be viable is associating it with the mimetype or something,
so it comes up when you click an amz file, but is otherwise not
present anywhere. I think kdepim does that for some weird file
formats. This ought to be done upstream though.

HS