On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 18:51 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote: > Am Samstag, den 18.02.2006, 11:26 +0000 schrieb Joachim Noreiko: > > Is that the service set in the CD Database preferences > > tool? > > > > This is an issue I've been meaning to raise after I > > noticed it during the UI review. > > > > We have a preferences tool that claims to set CD > > database preferences system-wide. > > But very few audio apps use it -- someone said only > > the CD player app does. > > > > So we're basically misleading the user, and we have a > > largely useless prefs tool. > > > > I don't know enough about the subject to have an > > opinion on the solution, but we should do one of: > > a) remove the prefs tool completely > > b) fix it so it's not pants and get all relevant apps > > to use it > > > > Leaving it as it is makes *us* look pants :( > > Classic CDDB databases and CDDB itself suffers from fundamental > shortcomings, as pointed out by Jamie Zawinski [1]. MusicBrainz really > seems to be a better alternative. I'm strongly in favor ofditching the > current CDDB preferences dialog.
It's still used for gnome-cd. Until we have a replacement CD player integrated in the Desktop (right now we still have Sound-juicer, which has that functionality more for double-checking that you're ripping the right track than anything else, and gnome-cd), the dialogue should be folded back in the program itself, rather than pollute the prefs menu. -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
