Re: [Usability] Re: [PATCH] right-click menu on volume: "Play DVD/Play CD"

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

Removed CC's too difficult to follow split conversations.

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Corey Burger wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:00:08 -0700
> From: Corey Burger <corey burger gmail com>
> To: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel touzery wanadoo fr>
> Cc: usability gnome org, nautilus-list gnome org
> Subject: [Usability] Re: [PATCH] right-click menu on volume: "Play
>     DVD/Play CD"
>
> > the media and reinsert it to let the computer play it.
> >     Hence this patch that adds "Play CD" or "Play DVD" on the
> > right-click on a volume if that volume is a CD or a DVD. Actually this
> > responds to a bug where the original requester asked for playing the
> > CD/DVD on left click (open), while I simply added the action on the
> > right-click menu, the choice left-click action or right-click menu is open.
>
> CCing the usablity list on this one.
>
> Is there a good reason not to have the cd/dvd play on a double left
> click? I notice that OS X does the same thing as nautilus (show the
> files on the dvd, with no option to play the cd/dvd). I personally
> think that this is a logical activty that users are likely to do and
> and not understand why it doesn't work.

This issue hurts my head and I'm not entirely clear what the current state
of this is at the moment so my comments will not be as thorough as I might
like.  (Developers please be nice to translators and try to use the GTK
STOCK play buttons and labels if at all possible instead of worrying about
CD/DVD/LaserDisc/MiniDisc/BlueDisc just say "Disc" and save yourself
hassle later on.)

Showing the files on the disk in the file manager allows you (I hope) to
get at the data section of mixed media Disc that contain both an Audio and
Data section.

Showing each track as a .cda file and allowing them to be played when you
click or automatically ripped to WAV/FLAC when you drag and drop them
would be great too.

I hope I never see the cdda:// protocol and it is never exposed to normal
users.  There really shouldn't be (but maybe there is) any need to
represent these locations as anything other than files appearing at
/mnt/cdrom/ or /media/cdrom or whatever your distribution uses.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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