Re: [Usability] mouse-over audio-icon-play feature

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

hi,

not a bad idea as such, but technically really hard. The audio player and the
file-manager would need to synchronize, so that the player starts, prepares the
file and then signals the file-manager to stop, when its ready to take over.

The file-manager could provide a dbus-interface:
* where the player could ask after starting, what the playback position and
* signal that it can take over
But still I expect a short break inbetween. You could try to propose this to the
nautilus developers and then you would need to talk to media-player projects so
that they will use the dbus-service. Not easy :/

Stefan

Keith Daniel Swenson wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am a senior undergrad CS major at the University of New Hampshire.
> I had a thought about the feature where audio files are played when the 
> mouse is over them. I was thinking that if the icon is then 
> double-clicked, the current play-time parameters could be passed to the 
> player to play the song at the current time. This would enable you to 
> continue listening to longer files without starting the song over (if 
> you want to do something else while listening to the rest of the file.)
> 
> Forgive me if this is already in the development works. I am new to the 
> community.
> 
> Thanks!
> Keith Swenson
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