vlc actions for CDs and DVDs don't appear in KDE's Device Notifier

Bug #542293 reported by skierpage
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: vlc

Kubuntu Karmic 9.10 amd64
Qt: 4.5.2
KDE: 4.3.5 (KDE 4.3.5)
VLC media player 1.0.2 Goldeneye
vlc: Installed: 1.0.2-1ubuntu2.1

I installed vlc in KDE using KPackageKit, but when I insert a CD, the "actions for this device" in Device Notifier in the plasma panel do not include "Just play the audio CD in VLC already!" There's no mention of VLC at all

The workaround is out there, e.g. http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3105875.0 : in System Settings > Advanced > Device Actions add the command "vlc cdda:// " and find VLC's icon. Repeat for playing DVDs, etc. But it would be much friendlier if the vlc package set these actions up for KDE users (I think a small file kde/share/apps/solid/actions/ or .desktop?).

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Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in vlc:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in vlc:
status: New → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 1.1.0-1ubuntu1

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vlc (1.1.0-1ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - build and install the libx264 plugin
    - add Xb-Npp header to vlc package
    - Add apport hook to include more vlc dependencies in bug reports
  * Drop xulrunner patches.
  * Drop 502_xulrunner_191.diff.

vlc (1.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Christophe Mutricy ]
  * New upstream version 1.1.0 (Closes: #586760, LP: #597108)
    * Fixes many bugs (Closes: #572151, #578917, #526088, #572914, #503377;
      LP: #206152, #261001, #281478, #282215, #282966, #283379, #283855,
      #285681, #287263, #328064, #328861, #346631, #356006, #356908, #357595,
      #358461, #362793, #368599, #375854, #380077, #383443, #403135, #403657,
      #403802, #414069, #415396, #416294, #419915, #422797, #425975, #427247,
      #435225, #439271, #442038, #444795, #453928, #459515, #461443, #465687,
      #466418, #476478, #482440, #491151, #491601, #514915, #517329, #517496,
      #537627, #539406, #542293, #549029, #549902, #550468, #550485, #550599,
      #551482, #553503, #554277, #556440, #560167, #564964, #566347, #568750,
      #570666, #582785, #584009, #586692, #587528)
    * SONAME changes
    * Update symbols files
    * Refresh patches and remove the ones merged upstream
  * rules:
    * Disable projectm and sqlite
    * Upstream Makefile install icons at the good place, simplify debian/rules
    * Specify where to install solids files
    * Install the optim only if present
    * Make sure we have useful build log
  * *.install: reflect new modules path and add new files
  * Add a trigger to generate the modules' cache as root.
  * Update the doc which get installed
  * control:
    * Prefer a recent libdvbpsi
    * add lua5.1 to have luac
    * Add more build-dep: xcb*, dirac, dc1394
  * Patch to allow compilation with xul 1.9.1
  * Remove unneeded -V for dh_makeshlibs
  * Use configure option instead of patching
  * Use dh_bugfiles and update the bug control file
  * Don't advertise deprecated package in vlc's manpage
  * Add some news about lua and zvbi
  * Move the luahttp's .hosts to /etc/vlc

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format.
  * Disable portaudio module.
  * Update symbols files.
  * Cleanup clean rule and other parts of debian/rules.
  * Remove default values from git-buildpackage config.
  * Change installation of man pages.
  * Remove unused ${shlibs:Depends}.
  * Sort Build-Depends and Depends.
  * Remove unused libhal-dev from Build-Depends (Closes: #580407).
  * Remove unused --enable-release configure flag.
  * Remove unused Build-Depends libid3tag0-dev, libsysfs-dev, and libxv-dev.
  * Provide VBI teletext plugin (Closes: #563873) - thanks to László
    Benedek <email address hidden> for the patch.
  * Enable atmo, fluidsynth (separate package), libproxy (Closes: #532110),
    kate (Closes: #563464), and mtp plugin.
  * Comment disabled features.
  * Explicitly enable or disable features.
  * Vcs-Browser link to summary page.
  * Convert patch header to DEP-3 and add DEP-3 to 502_xulrunner_191.diff.
  * Add myself to Uploaders.
  * ...

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Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Lari Natri (larva) wrote :

This bug was actually not fixed.

The problem is twofold:

1. Solid action files have incorrect content. This was fixed in VLC's master git branch just recently on 22.11.2010 (commit 99ebae0c04aa2ce0b3085fbba78f4245c713d9c2).

2. The files in question are installed into a wrong location. The correct one is /usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/. Trivial debdiff touching debian/control is attached.

Benjamin Drung (bdrung)
Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Triaged
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 1.1.5-2ubuntu1

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vlc (1.1.5-2ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian experimental, remaining changes:
    - build and install the libx264 plugin

vlc (1.1.5-2) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Reinhard Tartler ]
  * fix Breaks/Replaces for moving avcodec module around (Closes: #603912)

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Fix KDE device action file locations. (LP: #542293) - thanks to Lari Natri
  * Fixed wrong aspect ratio in transcoded image from webcam.
    (Closes: #603888, LP: #672304)
 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:51:28 +0100

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

I forgot to pull commit 99ebae0c04aa2ce0b3085fbba78f4245c713d9c2. Setting back to triaged.

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Triaged
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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 1.1.5-3ubuntu1

---------------
vlc (1.1.5-3ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian experimental, remaining changes:
    - build and install the libx264 plugin

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:51:45 +0100

vlc (1.1.5-3) experimental; urgency=low

  * Apply upstream fix for KDE device actions. (LP: #542293)

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:26:15 +0100

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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