Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] GUI mockup... let's get this sorted once and for all

[William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu>]

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 17:25 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:
>
> > Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > > Cramming the video display inside the library sound as good as what
> > > Apple did, adding video playback in iTunes wedged with sticky tape.
> >
> > How does this solve the problem of displaying still images provided by 
> > the podcast?
>
>
> For still images, even a smaller display next to the song information in
> the top toolbar would be fine, maybe scaled down, if it can be opened
> easily in an image viewer. I was just commenting about the "even movies"
> bit of your mail.

I'm not sure this is right.  Check out the example here:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/07/how_to_make_enh.html

I don't think a tiny thumbnail next to the song title is going to cut it.

I should say that I used to think the same way you do until two weeks 
ago when I saw Apple demo iTunesU here at JHU.  The level of integration 
between audio, video, etc. is amazing - we have some catching up to do. 
 I'm not sure just handing off to totem is going to work.

Jon