On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 00:34 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: ... > I don't need to think it needs to be that sophisticated... the file > manager would just stop playing when it received a double click, and > pass the time that it stopped playing to the media player. The media > players would then just need to agree on a common "start playing from > time T" argument. > > Of course there would be a gap of a couple of seconds while the media > player started up, but I don't think the OP was suggesting the > experience had to be seamless in that respect.
How about the file manager actually using the media player to do the preview? All it'd take would be an appropriate D-Bus interface, I guess, and it'd have a lot of advantages, such as a gapless transition from preview to actual playing, and the possibility of pausing whatever music is being played while doing a preview. Cheers, M. S. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
