(think I buggered up addresses on my reply, here's attempting to get convo back on rb-devel)
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:02 PM, James Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I respect that sometimes you have to be individual and go against the > grain in order to improve things, but every other app on the planet on > every OS has a Play button that turns into a Pause button. > Including Totem? If so, sounds like a bug report should be filed against Totem stating that it violates the HIG. > Sometimes > you've just got to go with what users expect, rather than what you think > might be better. > As a user, I expect GNOME applications to behave sensibly. If I wanted them to behave like other applications, I would use those other applications. I have no objection to playing follow-the-leader when there's no particular reason to keep current behavior (though others sometimes do), but when the HIG explicitly states that play/pause buttons should not be merged that is a strong justification for not merging them. > The fact that the suggestion was one of the highest > voted suggestions on Brainstorm so far to me suggests that I am not > alone in thinking this is the wrong way to be doing it. > The suggestion is currently on page 10 of the suggestion list, behind such ideas as porting OpenOffice to GTK+ and adding built-in support for Subversion in Nautilus. > If this really is something that goes against the whole Gnome thinking > then could you not offer this as an option somewhere... "show pause icon > during playback - yes/no". Then people could turn it on if they really > wanted but by default you have it the "gnome way". > Rhythmbox was changed to remove the merged play/pause button in 0.9.3, if I remember correctly. Presumably the developers would have added such a configuration option if they had been interested in it. > > Thanks for getting back to me > > > > > > John Millikin wrote: > > The HIG says specifically that the Play button should not be changed > > to Pause[1]. I happen to find a mixed play/pause button confusing. If > > the button displays a "pause" icon, does that mean the track is > > currently paused, or that clicking on the button will pause it? Having > > a clickbutton for play is easier, because a track is either playing or > > not playing. I find myself agreeing completely with Warbo in that the > > entire concept of a distinct "pause" button is a needless relic from > > physical tape players. > > > > [1] > > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/toolbars.html#toolbars-media > > _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
