Hi http://bmpx.beep-media-player.org/site/MPRIS http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces
lists a design for a common media-player dbus iface. Nautilus could use that for the preview. Then a seamleass transition could be made. It might need an extension for preview (to suspend current playback if there is any and to preserve the playlist). Stefan Calum Benson wrote: > On 20 Sep 2007, at 13:02, Martin Soto wrote: > >> 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. > > True enough. I guess we might as well be discussing this over on > nautilus-list though, really-- it's not so much of a new feature as a > potential tweak to an existing one (as far as the user is concerned). > > Cheeri, > Calum. > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
