Re: [Banshee-List] Fwd: 13 decimal places

[Brandon Perry <bperry volatile gmail com>]

Why don't you use fuzzy time (About 9 days, About 14 hours...), and add
a tooltip over the label telling you the exact?


On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 20:04 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>
> wrote:
>         In the old Banshee we broke the duration down into days,
>         hours, minutes,
>         seconds. It's just way too verbose. What's the point in
>         actually knowing
>         that granularity?
>         
>         We chose to use a single number in a single scale. If you have
>         days of
>         music, why do you care that there are 2 hours, 3 minutes, 5
>         seconds on
>         top of that?
> 
>  Fair, I appreciate that you guys thought about this. But I still
> think the point I made on the previous discussion is worth
> considering:
> 
> "For me, even the greatest two units would be useful (i.e. '2 minutes,
> 3 seconds', '3 hours, 4 minutes', and '38 days, 21 hours' for my whole
> library--maybe even rounding to weeks or months? ;)."
> 
> Frankly, I think it's kinda silly to assume that no one needs to see
> that information. In the previous discussion, a few reasons were
> mentioned why more precise information is used. Decimals (at all) are
> hard to interpret, even if it's just "4.5 hours". Also, am I the only
> one that actually sets up a (reasonably) precise playlist? I like to
> finish that last song in the morning (just) before I have to run off
> to work. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 
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