On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:30:09 +0300 Markus Törnqvist <m...@nysv.org> said:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 09:06:46PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > >On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:30:28 +0300 Markus Törnqvist <m...@nysv.org> said: > > > >> I'm a heavy user of the keyboard, so messing with the pointer doesn't feel > >> right. Especially not with keyboard-driven software like mplayer and maybe > >> Rage. > > > >almost everything is keyboard driven in rage. in fact osd appear/disappear is > >the only thing not explicitly kbd controlled - its implicit in any action - > >eg toggle loop mode, or pause/play or ff/rw etc. it comes on at any of > >these. i guess an o for that would be something that could be added. > > Sweet! :) > > >> The use-case for the OSD, for me, is that sometimes I just want to know for > >> how long I've been watching something. Or how much is left. Forcing OSD on > >> and off (ie hitting o twice) sounds like a good thing. > > >> More generally the case for mplayer keys is that there's a lot of nice > >> enough features, turning subtitles on and off, and I'm sure a lot of > >> people know the mplayer keybindings already as there's nothing wrong with > >> them. > > > >subtitles right now have no controls at all beyond "you'll get them if there > >is a matching .srt file or you add -sub file.srt on the cmdline". very basic > >atm. > > I seldom use subtitles myself, but as mplayer sometimes autodetects them from > online backups I just turn them off. That's a shortcut key ;) i only added subtitles on the weekend... so expect them to be a thinly supported thing. also note - i never use them either, so even more reason... :) > >> Yeah, that was actually the first thing I did :D Like launch rage with no > >> arguments, and dragging a video to it. > > > >:) i made that work as i kind of knew someone would do this and thus i made > >it function as you might expect. i also added it so you can dnd more and > >more into rage over time to add to your current playlist. :) > > Cool, didn't go that deep into it though, but that's definitely a good > thing :) > > >> I get the point why you might not want an open file dialog but is that the > >> general trend of EFL-driven apps? I appreciate software with an open file > >> function that allows me to find the files by typing around and open in > >> the current app. > > > >the dnd makes uses of another app that is devoted to futzing about finding > >files - the filemanager. but what you want there imho is not a file selector > >- that's a poor mans version of that. you want something like evrything in e > >built into your app - so you can navigate like a cmdline and find/play/see > >things. that's a whole new ballgame inho where the app wants to customize and > >define your view here - eg give you video thumbnails that actually play like > >the playlist widget on the right... this is a whole project on its own imho. > > So basically you mean "launch full-fledged EFM in Rage's context?" kind of... but not a separate window - inside rage. that means async file listing, organizing file view with entering folders etc. - it's a fair bit of work on the ui side for sure. > IIRC there was an old operating system, but I can't remember which one, that > used the file manager for all "open file" type operations. The philosophy > being that those dialogs are subsets of the file manager _anyway_ so why > not just use the whole thing. At least in theory I like that thinking if > it really works. Like knows that it's dealing with Rage now and not something > else. actually that is exactly how e works. e's own file selector IS the efm view. just in list mode. with 2 of them side by side... :) (faves on left, dir on right, with preview of a dir being another efm view). :) maybe elm's own file selector shoudl get some love and become as flexible and powerful as efm... then maybe it'll be a doable thing. > Looking at how gnome does this stuff makes me sad and annoyed, so anything > should be better ;) > > -- > mjt > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
