Re: [Usability]request for ui review on nautilus-media

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

Sorry for the late reply-

> > Regarding this properties window:
> > - 'Comments' should probably have a mnemonic
> I suppose you mean in the case where it's editable ?

Yes. Isn't it editable in all circumstances?

> > - I don't think the length has to be specified in thousanths of a second
>
> I think it does.  The regular audio view gives the length only in seconds.

OK, but in that case I'd prefer '26 seconds 113 milliseconds' instead of
'26.113'.

> Hm.  Personally, I feel nautilus should be a FILE manager only, and
> everything done should be in function of that.  So if I'm manipulating

Here we have a difference of opinion regarding Nautilus. In my opinion
it's more like a background-type of app that glues the desktop together,
which also happens to be quite useful for managing files.

> the whole concept of a file browser, plus not every audio file has
> metadata, and then you get a mixed view, which gets even messier.

That is a good point, I don't really know how to get around this when
displaying metadata-based titles.

> > >    but just the filename (I'd rather show the gnomevfs url but that gets
> > >    really ugly, so I'd better not)
> > Agreed.
> Yeah, but what do I show ?

Just the filename, I guess?

regards,

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