Re: [Usability] Sound Juicer 2 mockup comments

[Samuel Abels <newsgroups debain org>]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 14:29 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> This is the current mockup of the main interface:
> 
> http://www.burtonini.com/computing/screenshots/sj2-mockup-main-2.png
> 
> I purposely copied the Totem interface style (button wise) so that the
> two applications are visually similar.

>From using s-j I know that it immediately starts extracting when the
"Extract" button is pressed. That is good, but the button in the new
interface is IMO not clear enough (as you already mentioned) to still do
this relatively intrusive action.

Having a popup dialog ask the user would be a step backward though. I
guess it has the same size as the other buttons to leave the impression
that s-j is a CD player and a grabber as well, but I would still prefer
it to be labeled "Extract" like in the current version - that looks so
much easier.

Also, the "Edit" button looked like "Playlist" to me on the first
impression, but I am not sure how to solve this. The current s-j lets
you edit the names directly, will that still be possible with the markup
cells or is there a popup window required when you press the "Edit"
button?

As for me, I am really happy with the version installed on my PC.
Editing titles directly in the track list is great - it feels "natural"
you are just editing a list as you would when you have a sheet of paper
before you. And I mainly use s-j because of the 1-click-extraction,
which is just great.

> I was planning on having the play button double as a pause
> button, but I understand the HIG advises against this.

I would vote for HIG-compliance, as the current functionality never felt
"right" to me in Totem. Making them separate buttons would be closer to
what people know from the real world. Even more, for the same reason I
would like a "Stop" button in Totem. Isn't that even more important in a
CD player? "Pause" would probably keep the CD spinning, thus also
blocking the hardware eject button.
But either way, those changes should be made consistently with Totem.

> Currently SJ displays a dialog when it is copying a CD -- it would be
> possible to replace it in this design with the "copying" icon in the
> list view (see track 4), and the time slider possibly showing in-track
> progress.

I am not sure what is better. I'm am sure that I am happy with a popup
in that case though ;).

-Samuel
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