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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/11/10 10:45:
>...
> The Sound Menu as i understand it was made to enable also other music
> players to place themselves inside of it. Totem is the default player
> for single .mp3 files on every Ubuntu installation i have made so far,
> ironically it never appears in the Sound Menu.

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.)

> 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 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.

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