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

[Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel touzery wanadoo fr>]

Corey Burger wrote:

> 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.
>  
Well, I was thinking, nautilus is a browser, let's be consistent, let's 
make it browse. But it's arguable, that's why i said it's still open. If 
it should play the media on the left click, then maybe we need a 
right-click "browse".
Note that left-click on a DVD will browse the files, and for an audio 
CD, you get the cdda:// gnome-vfs url (but on my computer it's very slow 
to show up and is probably a "deprecated" UI compared to eg soundjuicer 
or the cd player).

I wanted to make a patch changing the least the policy so that it has 
more chances to be accepted. I don't have a strong opinion as to what to 
do (though I think I prefer what my patch does, the users will quickly 
learn to right-click).
Also note that DVD detection can have false-positives, it's only 
checking for a VIDEO_TS folder on the disk, it will trigger on any CD 
containing such a folder (the same flaw is in gnome-volume-manager).

emmanuel