The "blacklisted-media-players" key doesn't work

[korst]

I only want Audacious show in the sound menu. So I removed vlc from the "interested-media-players" to the "blacklisted-media-players" via dconf. So far everything works as supposed, but when I start vlc it adds itself to the "interested-media-players" and apears in the sound menu and stays there after vlc is closed
At this point vlc is still in the"blacklisted-media-players". that should override the "interested-media-players" tag, but doesn't.

screen: http://i.imgur.com/dOXGL0W.png

I've also tested this with Rhythmbox; same problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Lalo Martins (lalo.martins)]

Yes, vlc, rhythmbox, even youtube if you installed it.

IMO design-wise the blacklist must override “interested”, otherwise it (the blacklist property) is a no-op; it will basically keep a player out of the menu until the next time it's run.

[Lars Karlitski (larsu)]

Indeed, the "blacklisted-media-players" settings key hasn't been honored for a couple of ubuntu releases.

The idea is that applications have UI to disable integration into the sound menu. For example in VLC, you can disable it in Preferences (look for "DBus control interface"). It might make sense to disable it by default for this app.

[Viktor Pal (deere)]

I think that this bug is not low importance.
Just search Google to see how many people are trying to solve this problem with hacking around and waisting time to solve this.

Unfortunately you can't disable sound menu integration any more in VLC and neither have I found a related setting in Rhythmbox.
To be honest I haven't seen any media player where I was able to configure sound menu integration.
From what I have seen a media player has either no sound menu integration or if it has one you can't disable it.
So it turns out that the idea that "applications have UI to disable integration" was not realized in practice.

Currently the only way for VLC to remove the integration I have found is:
sudo mv -vi /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/control/libdbus_plugin.so /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/control/libdbus_plugin.so.backup
Is this really a good way to go?

I would really be happy to see support for "blacklisted-media-players" removed only after all the media players that have sound menu integration have also the option to disable it.