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Regarding the Sound Menu Spec's closing of inactive audio applications

 

Hi, Coming from bug 658590 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/658590>.

I am arguing the sanity of having media players close when no music is playing. Since this spec assumes that the user has no purpose for the application when closing wouldn't it be safe to say that any wasted RAM would be shifted to the swap partition? That's what it's for.

Constantly spending resources on starting and stopping a program can in the long run add up to a lot of wasted performance. Media players are among the most frequently accessed programs on computers - Should the CPU be hogged that much? Most media players scan the music library upon startup - When I start Banshee or Rhythmbox up it takes about a minute for the programs to scan my music. It doesn't make sense to have it do that every time I want to look through my library.

The close button's purpose has been obfuscated because of the systray and now it's been even furthur confused. Close /should/ close the program - however, invoking the close button to do different actions depending on the state of the program does not follow any sensical design - it has buried the design down a hole of larger complexity.

Thank you for your time.

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-Brett Cornwall




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