On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 07:34 +0200, Anas R. wrote: > Well, you are right, but I think that justifying a 'design' is not easy, > in another word, it's not easy to justify 'beauty'!! Since beauty doesn't > have a logic, > or it has, but it's very complex! > Anyway, I'll do my best to explain my theory beyond my design, it seems > interesting challenge :). > > In fact, there are three reasons beyond my design for timing bar: > > 1- User doesn't focus by his eyes on a media player in the same way he focus > on a word processor. > Word processors have a 'side-focus-angle' which is the start > reading/writing point, which is in the top-left side > of the application window (or top-right in middle-eastern languages). > While in media players, there is no language-context. instead, there is > a 'black board' hides a lot of events and > surprises waiting to appear once in 'the middle of the screen', so it > has a 'central-focus-point', and the whole > application should have this spirit; the spirit of centralization, > that's why the timing information shouldn't be > considered as 'status' in a regular status bar in a regular > language-context-based application, but it should > appear in a 'central black board' screen, just like the original video > central black board! > > 2- There is a wide unused area under the 'seek bar', and timing information > appears in a small silly corner in the > application window. > The solution: taking the advantage of this unused area, and putting the > timing information in a 'respected board' > in this area, in as size that deserves. > > 3- By this suggested design we can make timing board richer, and more > interactive. > Rich: arranging timing information in distributed areas instead of > putting it in a one simple line makes it more readable. > Interactive: for example, double clicking on the time numbers to offer > the time left with (-) sign, just like XMMP/Winamp. > > Best regards,
You seem to be basing this whole thing on the idea that people really care about the elapsed time when watching videos, which I don't think is at all true. -- adamw _______________________________________________ gnome-multimedia mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-multimedia
