Re: [Muine] A few suggestions

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

On R, 2005-02-18 at 17:01 -0500, Matthew Good wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 22:33 +0200, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > On R, 2005-02-18 at 17:20 +0100, Lars Weber wrote:
> > > While it's not common for users to hit play twice I think it's quite
> > > common for them to want to start playing something and to then to select
> > > other items to play later (using "Queue").
> > 
> > The main reason why the behaviour is as it is, is because many people
> > (including myself) often just want to play something, hit 's', type a
> > part of the name of the song and hit return. But then again, one could
> > argue the same thing for queueing, so I guess I'll give in and change
> > the behaviour.
> 
> Yes, I've debated about this behavior some myself, since I can identify
> with both situations.  I like being able to open the "Play Album"
> window, scroll through and double-click something and it starts playing
> and closes.  However there are times I'd like to play an album
> immediately and then enqueue several more albums.  Based on my own usage
> though, the general time I find myself in the second situation is when
> the player isn't already playing (e.g. my playlist is empty, or I've
> reached the end).  A sort of compromise solution that would seem to work
> nicely based on my own behavior would be to keep Play as it is and close
> the dialog, but if you hit Queue[1] when the player is stopped it would
> start playing without closing the dialog so you could continue to add
> other albums to the playlist.

I don't think we should start playing when the user presses "queue".. i
mean, queue != play. What is already done however, that if the playlist
is stopped (as in, the last song has ended, or is empty), the earliest
added song will be loaded, but it will be paused. 

In CVS I've changed the behaviour so that pressing "Play" wont close the
window anymore. I guess we'll just have to get used to hitting "Escape"
a bit more ..

Cheers,

Jorn