Re: Gnome multimedia plan

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 19:04, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Jorn Baayen">
> 
> > the plan is to have an Audio CD view or something similar in RB,
> > hopefully using gnome-media's cddb stuff, so that cd info is shared with
> > gnome-cd. (Haven't looked at it yet though)
> 
> Perhaps if Rhythmbox is added to the Desktop release, it could provide a
> replacement for the current Nautilus music view. :-) Lots of cool things
> could be done for views of CD music, wav files and mp3/ogg files!

Hmm. I think it's a bad idea, because:
- Rhythmbox is collection-oriented, not directory or file-oriented, so
this would be a mix of concepts.
- The UI would be horribly cluttered, someone already sent me a mockup:
  http://people.nl.linux.org/~jorn/Files/nautilus-rhythmbox-view.jpg
  Note the two toolbars.. :)

As for the whole music view business, I'm not sure it's really a good
idea.. why swallow whole a music player into a file manager?
I mean, preview and single file stuff is cool, but a full fledged thing
.. that's what apps are for. IMHO file managent and advanced music
playback don't really mix :)

I've been using a Mac lately and what I really like there is that Finder
is very fast, has a really simple UI, and doesnt have any of the view
bloat: to view a file it just launches a simple viewer app, and very
quickly too. My experience is that it works a lot better, since those
apps do exactly what they are meant to do and are not limited by the
nautilus shell, and are a lot faster and more reliable.

Well, that is my vision about an ideal Nautilus as well ;) small,
lightweight, and ideally with the nice columned view :)

BTW, i submitted a patch to nautilus several months ago that ported the
musicview and nautilus sound previews to monkeymedia.

Cheers
Jorn

> 
> - Jeff
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