On 6/7/05, Charles Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 11:42 -0700, Rene Valois wrote: > > If the Queue is the main source, I think it would be really cool to have > > an easy way to enqueue songs when browsing the library... I think > > middle-clicking would be good, as Firefox and tab-based browsers have > > ushered that into the mainstream. > > > > Double-click = play immediately. > > Middle-Click (or shift-click, or whatever) = enqueue > > I'm not sure how natural it will be for the lay user for them to expect > or even make the conceptual connection. > > For instance, [personally] I'd rather bind the mouse buttons to the most > common actions that I'd require. > > Double-click - Add to queue > > Middle-click - Play next [crop or jump queue] > (This was a feature on an mp3 player of a friend and was really nice > touch. Instead of playing the song immediately, it would play the > song only once the current one had finished.) > > Like I said in my previous email, consensus should dictate. This is my > preference. I'm not even sure consensus will agree with my proposal to > only ever play from the queue. > > Of course, we could always have a option somewhere to change the > behaviour of the mouse buttons.
In my opinion with your proposed model, having middle-click enqueue songs would be more intuitive largely due to the same reasoning Rene had; tabbed browsers like Firefox have made this kind of behaviour mainstream. Middleclicking a link to have it open in a new tab (in the background - _"view this later"_) is very, very similar to the notion of enqueueing songs in a music player. I'm not too sure how keen I really am on the idea of only ever playing from a queue, as I tend to play randomly from my extensive music library, but with the "enqueue playlist" functionality you pointed out in that mail [1], I'm sure I can live with the change. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2005-May/msg00098.html _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
