[Usability] Skipping Around Audio/Video in Gnome

[Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>]

I was skipping through a podcast I downloaded (so easily) in Rhythmbox 
today. I was using the arrow keys to skip through the audio, but it was 
strange because I'm used to the way the arrow keys skip through 
audio/video in Totem.

I can't quite figure out exactly what the left/right arrow behaviour is 
in either Rhymthbox or Totem for skipping around a media, but it's 
definitely different between the two.

Rhythmbox seems to jump in short intervals, and if you hold down the 
arrow key, it does a slow/jerky (and noisy) fast-forward.

Totem seems to jump a minute ahead with an arrow key press, though it 
appears to be jumping smaller intervals backwards with the left arrow 
key. Holding down the arrow keys does a smooth, but silent fast-forward.

It would be nice to be able to learn the behaviour of skipping through 
audio/video with the keyboard in *one* of these and have that experience 
carry over to the other (and other apps, I didn't look at Banshee, or 
Jokosher, or other Gnome-y media apps).

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Steven Garrity