Re: Proposed Modules, My Take

[Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>]

J�lleter wrote:
> On Son, 2005-01-16 at 17:34 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> > I have to admit I'm a little mystified by this "merge the ripper and the
> > player UI" trend - I see that they involve the same implementation
> > backend, but I don't see how the user tasks are related.
> >
> > I never play CDs, I only rip. But even for people who do both, I can't
> > imagine they see them as the same task or typically want to do them at
> > the same time.
> >
> > Are we glomming the UI together just because it's the same backend?
>
> Can't we look at the program as "the window representing my audio cd"? I
> can open and copy files within the same nautilus folder window even
> though I often do only one of those tasks at a given time.
>
> Besides that I can imagine that people, who do not rip all tracks at
> once, may want to listen to some tracks before deciding which ones to
> rip.

Yeah, I agree with J�re. Havoc's question (why combine the player 
and ripper) is a good one, but I think thinking of it the "window 
representing my audio CD" as J�ggests.

Having tried out Goobox, with already has this implemented, I think the 
idea stands up. It's good at both ripping and play without sacrificing 
much. It's one less app to maintain - one less menu item to have in the 
"Sound & Video" menu category, and one less new interface to learn.

Steven Garrity