Hi, I've been testing the latest SVN code, and most GUI bugs I had been seeing since last week seem to be gone. The only ugly one I still see is that the blue background for the name of music files is sometimes too big to the left, as if the file name started with lots of spaces.
But this isn't what I wanted to write about, I wanted to share some ideas about the UI, and more precisely the music part for now : - When entering a folder with a few music files, the 3rd is always selected. Why? It makes no sense to me, apart maybe from having the row of files be prettier since there are some to the left. I'd prefer to have the "play" button of the left selected by default. - When pressing enter on a folder with a few music files, I haven't been able to figure which file is played first. Not the first alphabetically it seems, nor even always the same (press enter a few times on the same directly, different files play). - Once you've started playing a file, there is no easy "navigation" (previous and next). You apparently need to choose the next file and play that one, as I haven't figured how to skip to the next. After hiding the dock, pressing "enter" shows the top info and the bottom "flat" controls, but you can only change the playback speed (is that even useful!?) or skip by chunks of 10s... no prev/next. And once you've moved through your music folders, the is no way to find again the currently playing track _visually_, you must remember it yourself... maybe here some kind of "glow" or visual indicator of the currently playing file would be nice, as well as on all the directories leading to it. - Shuffle : Either the only playback implemented, or not there yet, I don't know (again, some visual indicator of the currently playing song would have helped me figure out what order Elisa chooses to play files), but I'd definitely like to have a choice of the playback type, possibly set in the options, between at least : - "Simple play" : Start with the first folder, first file then move forward alphabetically - "Random play" : Randomly play songs from the selected folder and its sub-folders - "Random album" : Randomly pick a (sub-)folder which contains no other sub-folders and play all of its files, then pick another folder etc. ...maybe others. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) - Linux kernel 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 Load : 0.48 0.42 0.83
