Re: [Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/11/10 23:35:
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> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 18:25, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>...
>> frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on
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>>> To experience the Sound Menu the way it was intended fully, i'm
>>> sure it is critical to have the possiblity to control the DE's
>>> default audio file player first. It doesn't make much sense to have
>>> all these pretty controls in the Sound Menu only if i'm prepared to
>>> take the payload of a heavy music database management application
>>> like Rhythmbox.
>>... 
>> Preferences > Preferred Applications > Multimedia
> 
> I meant to control the player via transport controls (play, pause,
> next, previous, show/hide player) in the Sound Menu, not to control
> what player should be the default player.

The sound menu displays whichever player or players are currently
registered with it. Are you suggesting it should display fewer players
than that? If so, why? And if not, what are you suggesting?

>>> I think if we use a lean player to test the usability of playback
>>> controls in the Sound Menu, for example Totem, which is system
>>> default already, we run a good chance that we soon will notice how
>>> best to usefully display track metadata.
>>...
>> I don't see how the two things have anything to do with each other.
> 
> I am suggesting to pull the Metadata not from Rhythmbox but from GVFS
> or Nautilus.
>...

That wouldn't work, because GVFS and Nautilus have no idea what track is
playing. But more importantly, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the
issue of how to clarify the visual presentation of the item.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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