Re: [jokosher-devel] [Usability] Play/Pause or Play and Pause buttons in Jokosher

[Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2 gmail com>]

Calum Benson wrote:
> The arguments against:
>
> - "Stop" has no real meaning in digital media, "Pause" is sufficient, so
> you're only ever going to need Play and Pause functions, which are
> effectively opposite states.  And it's spatially inefficient to have two
> buttons for opposite states, ergo you only need one button.

Well in Jokosher stop kind of has a function. Pause keeps the audio at 
the current position (so you can hit play and pick up where you left 
off) whereas stop will take you back to the beginning.

> Personally, I blame Apple.  Until the iPod came along, every CD player
> (and of course cassette player) I ever owned had separate Play, Pause
> and Stop buttons.  But that wouldn't have fitted so nicely onto a
> clickwheel, so now everyone's used to overloaded buttons :)

I blame apple too. Banshee seems to copy a lot of things from iTunes, 
and that would include their play/pause button, which totem now uses as 
well. However Jokosher is different from either banshee, totem or 
rhythmbox in the fact that we require a stop button. Currently we use a 
play toggle button just like rhythmbox. Is it worth trying to keep 
Jokosher's play/pause button consistent with any of these applications 
since the stop button is already inconsistent with them all?

Laszlo