Re: [Usability] suggestions to ameliorate the ergonomics of totem

[Jelle de Jong <jelledejong powercraft nl>]

Dorian Bannier wrote:
> Hi everyone. I'm french and my english is weak. So forgive me if I'm
> hard to read :)
> I post a first mail to make suggestion to ameliorate the ergonomics of
> totem.
>
> So, I made a list of the function of totem, and I was surprised that
> only 4 functions are disponible by 1 click only. (Play/pause, Precedent,
> next, and volume).
> It's an error for me to hide some important features in the menus.
> By example, the open file features is disponible by 2 clicks: File and
> Open file.
>
> In the following link, you will find a schema of the interface I
> suggest(without the menu bar):
> http://img247.imageshack.us/my.php?image=totemyn6.jpg
>
> I will post the legend of the schema here:
> 1. Button Play
> 2. Button Forward
> 3. Button Follow
> 4. Button Return
> 5. Button Previous
> 6. Button Stop
>
> 7. Open File
> 8. Open directory
> 9. Menu DVD
> 10. Audio Select (to select the language of file)
> 11. Subtitles Select
> 12. Chapter Select
>
> 13. Full Screen.
>
> The audio, subtitles and chapter select are here for the play of DVD,
> and divx. When an user launch a divx and he wants to add subtitles, the
> button Subtitles display only the list of the subtitles who are in the
> file of the video.
> The selection of subtitles is a important weak of totem, because it
> needs 3 clicks to have a box to select subtitles. And I didn't found
> subtitles selects in the traditionnel menus. The only way I found is
> Panel/click left on the file/subtitles.
>
> What do you think about this proposition? I hope it's the good mailing
> list to do that.

To be more effective with your post, I suggest you create a bug report 
on the totem bug reporter. The developers make the choice how there 
program will look and work. You need to convince them to change there 
layout, a good way to start this, is by creating a bug report and attach 
possible patches.

PS. This is just some advice, i don't have any critics on the contains.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=totem

Best regards,

Jelle