On 10 Sep 2007, at 20:26, Stefan Kost wrote: > hi, > > not a bad idea as such, but technically really hard. The audio > player and the > file-manager would need to synchronize, so that the player starts, > prepares the > file and then signals the file-manager to stop, when its ready to > take over. > > The file-manager could provide a dbus-interface: > * where the player could ask after starting, what the playback > position and > * signal that it can take over > But still I expect a short break inbetween. You could try to > propose this to the > nautilus developers and then you would need to talk to media-player > projects so > that they will use the dbus-service. Not easy :/
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. Cheeri, Calum. > > Keith Daniel Swenson wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I am a senior undergrad CS major at the University of New Hampshire. >> I had a thought about the feature where audio files are played >> when the >> mouse is over them. I was thinking that if the icon is then >> double-clicked, the current play-time parameters could be passed >> to the >> player to play the song at the current time. This would enable you to >> continue listening to longer files without starting the song over (if >> you want to do something else while listening to the rest of the >> file.) >> >> Forgive me if this is already in the development works. I am new >> to the >> community. >> >> Thanks! >> Keith Swenson >> -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
