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Re: Sound Indicator is cluttered with multiple media players

 

On 26/03/12 02:03, Brandon Watkins wrote:
On 03/25/2012 08:35 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
On 03/25/2012 07:33 PM, Chris wrote:
+1 I totally agree with you. What is the use if those controls if it
isn't opened?
Using the controls in the menu will automatically start the program.
This again goes towards Unity's goal of not making the user care about
whether an app is open or not.  If you want to play music, just press
Play and it'll play.

Michael Hall
mhall119@xxxxxxxxxx



But the current implementation is a bit redundant (since clicking the player title does the same thing as pressing play), and could be confusing to users that have more than one media player, because it shows identical sets of playback icons. Just having the title to open the player (if its closed) would be a much cleaner.

Just to be clear on the intended functionality.

Currently only the default player (Rhythmbox in the case of 12.04) will always show it's playback control. Hence why it looks a bit odd in the initial screenshot because Banshee is running and Rhythmbox is not. Pressing on the play command of the default player only should launch the player and start it playing while pressing on the title should just launch the player.

Conor


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