[vlc-devel] vlc: svn commit r22912 (funman)

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le Tuesday 30 October 2007 20:24:06 Subversion daemon, vous avez écrit :
> r22912 | funman | 2007-10-30 19:24:06 +0100 (Tue, 30 Oct 2007) | 1 line
> Changed paths:
>    M /trunk/src/libvlc-module.c
>
> Disable album art by default. fix #1280

More generally, there are many reasons why VLC should not use "the Internet" 
automatically without user permission:
- may screw up if network is not available,
- may screw up stream output,
- privacy,
- network usage policy (such as inside corporate networks).

This applies not only to art fetcher, but any kind of meta data Internet-based 
search, and also update check (which is currently commented out, but 
nevermind).

IMHO, VLC GUIs should bring a "Don't show this question again" type of dialog 
at first start. These can then some "ask the question" configuration flag 
off, and write the proper settings to art fetcher et all.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/
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