On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 00:49 +1000, James "Doc" Livingston wrote: > Currently various multi-media application behave differently when the > "scrolling" (up/down arrow, page up/down mouse wheel) actions are > performed on their seek slider. There have been bugs (at least 164351 > and 330570) filed against several applications asking that they behave > like others, and it would be good to have consistent behaviour.
Agreed. > Currently Totem and Gnome Sound Recorder map "up" to seek forwards in > time, Sound-Juicer and Rhythmbox map "up" to seek back in time, and > Banshee and Muine don't seek when the user does this. Banshee (and Muine?) seeks on CTRL+Left/Right. > Some of the point for up=forwards are: > * people associate up with increasing the time from the start > Time is usually displayed on the X axis... sliders for seeking are usually horizontal... so Up/Down keys for this mess with my mind > Some of the point for up=backwards are: > * people associate up with increasing the time remaining (only > applicable if it's shown to the user) > * people associate up with "going towards the start", like for > documents/web pages Again, for me it's more literal connection with visual objects... if I press the right arrow, I am scrolling my time graph "into the future." Volume is my Y axis. > Some of the point for taking no action: > * these are "vertical" scroll events and the slider is horizontal, so > should do nothing I don't think this is should be a no-action case. I think representations just should be "on-axis" (of course feelings are going to differ, this are just how I interpret position) >From a more technical (and possibly usability) standpoint, my objection to up/down is that it's used by and is more important to other widgets (our track views in Banshee/RB), meaning the slider needs focus for the keys to actually seek. In Banshee you can press CTRL+Left/Right anywhere and it seeks. Cheers, Aaron _______________________________________________ gnome-multimedia mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-multimedia
