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

[Alex Launi <alex.launi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 17:25 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>     
>     Apparently usability testing of 10.10 found that people were surprised
>     when music files opened in Totem. I haven't seen the exact results, and
>     I'm not sure how we'd open standalone music files in Banshee while
>     making it clear either (a) that they weren't being added to the library,
>     or (b) how to remove them from the library. (IIRC Mac OS X opens music
>     files by default in QuickTime Player, not iTunes, presumably for the
>     same reason.) 

I've been considering this. It might be a good use case for Muinshee. Muinshee is a good standalone player for when you don't really need a library, but still uses all of the Banshee infrastructure.

We need a similar solution for the one-off video case. Perhaps extending Muinshee to play video in a similar way would be a good solution.

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Alex Launi
Ubuntu Desktop Experience Team