Re: Totem and interaction with current (crappy) sound systems

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 00:15, iain wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 20:02, Manuel Clos wrote:
> 
> > The first one is about totem blocking the dsp device, this is, when 
> > totem finishes playing an mp3 file, it goes to pause mode. In pause mode 
> > Totem will not release the dsp device. So causing other apps to block 
> > (xmms, ...). As Bastien says, the Right Thing (tm) is to fix the crappy 
> > sound system, but as you know, this is not going to happen in the 2.4 
> > timeframe. This is also related to Totem not providing an STOP button 
> > (which should release the dsp device). Currently you can't replay a 
> > song, you must get the slide to the beggining (compared to clicking play 
> > in xmms).
> 
> Here, here. I hate that everyone rushed to ditch the stop button, but
> didn't make |< work correctly. |< should work like so
> 
> if (position_in_file < 1second) {
>    seek (0);
> } else {
>    go_to_previous_track ();
> }

If you use that code, gnome-cd is broken as well ;)

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>