Re: [Usability] Some usability feedback

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 14:49 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Mariano Su�z-Alvarez wrote:
> 
> > Actually, burning data and burning music are tasks so different that
> > it'd be really strange to have them anywhere tied together.
> 
> I see where you're coming from, but I don't completely buy the argument.
> When I have a folder filled with ogg files, it will have a context menu 
> allowing me to add it to the Rhythmbox library. When opened, 
> gst-thumbnailer will give them sound icons and at some point I even got 
> to hear the song itself when I hovered my mouse pointer over it. The 
> point being, GNOME apparently *recognizes* that we're dealing with music 
> files here. So how is it *not logical* to start burning an audio CD when 
> dragging these files to burn:/// or selecting a few and rightclick > 
> burn to CD?

Because burn:/// doesn't have any notions of order.

> > What we need is a user level notion of a playlist, which can be created,
> > edited, played, and burnt onto cds, and so on. This tasks would be done
> 
> Good idea. Bastien, do you think it is feasible to have a shared (fd.o?) 
> playlist format for all (GNOME) multimedia apps?

There are already a bunch of playlist formats which are usable. It all
depends on the requirements for such a playlist. The .pls format can
solve most of the needs of a movie player like Totem.

All depends what you want to achieve.

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