Re: [Muine] A few suggestions

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

On K, 2005-02-23 at 02:00 +0100, Lars Weber wrote:
> > 1. User wants to hear one particular album/song now.
> > This is like "Play" where they have one album or song that they want to
> > hear.  They open the dialog, choose it and the dialog should immediately
> > close.
> > 
> > 2. User wants to add several albums/songs to their playlist.
> > This is like "Queue".  The user wants to be able to add multiple albums
> > to their playlist, so they don't want the dialog to close immediately.
> > However, I think that in this situation, they probably still want to
> > actually be listening to music, so if their playlist is empty, or
> > they've reached the end, the first album/song selected can start playing
> > immediately and subsequent selections are added to the end.
> 
> Leaving the question whether to close the window or not aside, the
> behaviour you describe would perhaps more cleanly be implemented by
> disabling the Queue button whenever the playlist is emtpy or has reached
> the end.  I'm honestly not sure whether this would be a good thing to do
> or not.

Hmm, i think this would be really weird. I mean, if you just want to
play an album, you'd just take the dialog, and try to hit return or hit
play.. and then finding the play button insensitive would be a little
odd.

Jorn