On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 21:47 +0100, Bertrand Lorentz wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Matt Sturgeon <
mttza1 gmail com> wrote:
> > Ok, sorry - the emails still arnt going through - im going to host a
> > page on my website. The page is located here:
> >
http://www.kicks.co.cc/banshee-mockup/
>
> Thanks, I was just going to suggest you to do just that ;)
> And thanks also for all those mockups !
>
> I would be interested in hearing more about the UI/UX problem(s)
> you're trying to solve here, and about the improvements those changes
> bring to the user.
>
> If one of those is about having a wider seek slider, I'd like to hear
> why you feel this is necessary.
> With the current layout (1.9.0 and above), a slider that is about 250
> pixels wide fits comfortably on my 1280px wide screen. And that gives
> you about 1 pixel per second for your average 4 minutes song. And
> anyway, I rarely rewind or skip forward, and if I do, it's more like
> "let's go back near the start" or "let's skip the slow start of that
> song and go somewhere in the middle".
> For the other, less frequent, use cases, like precision seeking in an
> hour long podcast, I think those should be handled through the "Seek
> to" dialog or bookmarks, maybe with additional refinements to these
> features.
> (Yes, the "Seek to" dialog was a bit broken in 1.9.0, it's fixed in git master).
>
