Re: A new design for Totem

[Adam Williamson <awilliamson mandriva com>]

On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 07:34 +0200, Anas R. wrote:
> Well, you are right, but I think that justifying a 'design' is not easy,
> in another word, it's not easy to justify 'beauty'!! Since beauty doesn't have a logic,
> or it has, but it's very complex!
> Anyway, I'll do my best to explain my theory beyond my design, it seems interesting challenge :).
> 
> In fact, there are three reasons beyond my design for timing bar:
> 
> 1- User doesn't focus by his eyes on a media player in the same way he focus on a word processor.
> 	Word processors have a 'side-focus-angle' which is the start reading/writing point, which is in the top-left side 
> 	of the application window (or top-right in middle-eastern languages).
> 	While in media players, there is no language-context. instead, there is a 'black board' hides a lot of events and
> 	surprises waiting to appear once in 'the middle of the screen', so it has a 'central-focus-point', and the whole
>  	application should have this spirit; the spirit of centralization, that's why the timing information shouldn't be
>  	considered as 'status' in a regular status bar in a regular language-context-based application, but it should 
> 	appear in a 'central black board' screen, just like the original video central black board!
> 
> 2- There is a wide unused area under the 'seek bar', and timing information appears in a small silly corner in the
>  	application window.
> 	The solution: taking the advantage of this unused area, and putting the timing information in a 'respected board'
> 	in this area, in as size that deserves.
> 
> 3- By this suggested design we can make timing board richer, and more interactive.
> 	Rich: arranging timing information in distributed areas instead of putting it in a one simple line makes it more readable.
> 	Interactive: for example, double clicking on the time numbers to offer the time left with (-) sign, just like XMMP/Winamp.
> 
> Best regards, 

You seem to be basing this whole thing on the idea that people really
care about the elapsed time when watching videos, which I don't think is
at all true.
-- 
adamw