I appreciate the mouse over effect. I know it is a nautilus property and I can disable it if I need. I think the issue is more like users do not know that it is there and think there is soemthing wrong. I usually use this to impress my friends by telling them I do not need to open a music file to see what it is. I believe it is very usefull since it helps identify songs when sorting them or even naming it before ou add them to a multimedia player.
It wouldn't hurt to disable it by defaultm so long as activating it is not very difficult On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:02 PM, A. Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Scott Ritchie <[email protected]> wrote: >> So, by default Gnome has a feature that I've seen confuse at least a few >> users - if you leave the mouse over top an audio file it will >> automatically start playing the file, even if it's already open or you >> have other music playing at the same time. >> >> Upstream, however, seems reluctant to change it: >> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537905 >> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/237975 >> >> I'm convinced this goes way against user expectations. From the bug >> comments: >> >>> 1) What value do audio previews serve? Most users will "test" a file by >>> opening it. >>> 2) If we do decide to continue with the preview, we need to make it very >>> clear >>> that an audio preview is playing and how to stop it (eg with a tooltip) >>> 3) There is potential for harm here (playing music without being asked to >>> during class/meeting, etc). This is especially true with audio files on the >>> desktop. >>> 4) We should never play an audio file with preview if it's already playing >>> somewhere else. A common case of this is when I right click a file, tell >>> it to >>> open (or even queue) in my media player but leave my mouse nearby. The file >>> will start playing, and also start previewing, leading to a very confusing >>> double-sound. >>> >> >>> I've seen this affect several people now, and I'm quite convinced that the >>> icon >>> change is absolutely not enough. It's a small, hard to notice icon, it >>> doesn't >>> appear as soon as the audio starts, and most importantly it's not clear >>> whether >>> it means "I will start playing sound in a second" or "click here to play >>> sound". Many users would expect the latter, since they're about to open an >>> audio file and clicking is what normally makes it play sound. >>> >>> At the very least, we should notify the user with some text somewhere, such >>> as >>> by using libnotify. >> >> >> So, would it be appropriate to disable this in Jaunty? > > I don't think so. > > The impression that I get is that the problem comes from the fact that > it's happening on the desktop, and not subfolders. It's appropriate in > subfolders; you're looking at files, you're purposely landing the > mouse on those files, the icon changes and the audio preview starts. > > The desktop however, the mouse just lands where it lands. If there > happens to be some audio underneath it, the audio preview might start > before you manage to move the mouse again. This has happened to me a > few times and every time it spooks me. Futhermore, the desktop often > has a different background or texture, so it might take longer to > notice the audio-preview icon there. > > If you don't like the audio preview feature at all, just disable it > and it won't bother you again (until the next reinstall...) That's the > point that Andre expressed in the bug. But the audio preview feature > shouldn't be disruptive in the general case and IMO having it on the > desktop is rather disruptive. > > Cosimo Cecchi wrote a patch that refactored the audio preview feature > a bit. Once that lands, it should be fairly easy to disable on the > desktop. > > -A. Walton > >> >> Thanks, >> Scott Ritchie >> >> -- >> ubuntu-desktop mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >> > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop > -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
