Re: [Banshee-List] keyboard shortcut for fast forward and rewind

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2012/6/11 Calum Halcrow <calumhalcrow gmail com>:
> Hi Vojtěch and everyone,
>
>> There are several keyboard shortcuts, but the shorcuts for fast forward
>> and rewing are missing. There were some on some site (shift + left or
>> right arrows), but they don't work.
>> I tried to create my own using banshee from command line, but there is
>> no such command, just seeking by exact position. I might write a script
>> for this but it seems too complicated.
>> Is there any plan of adding these keyboard shortcuts? They are present
>> in every player I have encountered.
>
> I'm new to the Banshee mailing list and community, but the reason I
> signed up is because I intend to write a community extension to
> provide exactly these kind of keyboard shortcuts. What would scratch
> my own itch would be to have Ctrl+left/right to move 1 minute
> back/forward, and Alt+left/right to move 10 seconds, like in VLC.
>
> I'll be writing this (rather simple I hope) extension over the coming
> weeks, but please bare in mind that the code-base and development
> environment is quite new to be (I'm a web developer, used to dynamic
> scripting languages). Once I am done I expect to push my extension to
> the banshee-community-extensions repo, or submit a patch for review
> via the relevant channels (I will find out how to do so in due
> course).
>
> I hope my forthcoming contribution can be of use to you!

Can you please contact our GSoC student Udesh, he is working on Voice
Controls for Banshee for accessibility use cases. It might be the case
that your work and his will match very well and thus accelerate the
process.

- David

> Regards,
> Calum
>
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