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

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi

http://bmpx.beep-media-player.org/site/MPRIS
http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces

lists a design for a common media-player dbus iface. Nautilus could use that for
the preview. Then a seamleass transition could be made. It might need an
extension for preview (to suspend current playback if there is any and to
preserve the playlist).

Stefan

Calum Benson wrote:
> On 20 Sep 2007, at 13:02, Martin Soto wrote:
> 
>> How about the file manager actually using the media player to do the
>> preview? All it'd take would be an appropriate D-Bus interface, I  
>> guess,
>> and it'd have a lot of advantages, such as a gapless transition from
>> preview to actual playing, and the possibility of pausing whatever  
>> music
>> is being played while doing a preview.
> 
> True enough.  I guess we might as well be discussing this over on  
> nautilus-list though, really-- it's not so much of a new feature as a  
> potential tweak to an existing one (as far as the user is concerned).
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>