Hi all, I'm going to discuss here about what I said in comment 12 on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415775 > Comment #13 from Aaron Bockover (developer, points: 15) > 2007-03-08 00:08 UTC [reply] > The widget does allow for clicking and then adjusting the volume, like a normal > scale. It also allows click+drag+release to adjust. It has a tooltip to show > the actual volume level and the theme icons do a decent job of showing relative > volume level (mute, min, med, max). > > If this widget were like F-Spot's zoom widget, there would be no widget - you'd > just use a regular slider. Part of the point of this widget is to be more > compact and it also looks nicer than a constantly exposed slider. I do not > think there's room for showing a standard slider in Rhythmbox, Banshee, or > Totem. That area should be consumed (at least in RB and Banshee) by metadata, > etc. > > I don't think this widget is any less usable than a regular slider. > Comment #14 from Ronald Bultje (developer, points: 21) > 2007-03-08 00:19 UTC [reply] > It's actually more usable. B/c of the icon, you get instant information on what > the button does. Since all (media) apps share it, it's a learn-once-use-always > thing for users, too. > > A slider is just a slider, like all the million other sliders on GNOME, e.g. > the brightness slider in gimp, the quality slider in banshee's vorbis encoder, > etc. I just looked at the f-spot screenshots to see what you're talking about > and I still haven't been able to figure out which slider in f-spot is supposed > to be the zoom slider, and I'm a programmer! > > Anyway, this discussion has been had before in the totem bug report, please > re-read that and let's leave this bug report for the potential inclusion of > this widget in gtk+. Well I do think that [1] and [2] do look a lot better and are much more self explanatory. In particular iTunes' interface delivers the same, if not more, information and functionality in less area than rhythmbox's. I think the latter[3] is quite wastefull even if the button volume saves some horizontal pixels. Don't you agree? F-spot's zoom widget on the lower right corner is IMO misplaced but the widget itself is even better than iTunes' due to the color use: longer blue bar meaning higher volume, zoom, etc. The icons used may not be the best for the zoom metaphor though. The ideal widget would look like this[4] IMO. This is only my opinion and I'm not even contributing a patch so I don't really get to vote but thanks for considering anyway. Rui [1] http://glua.ua.pt/~rmatos/itunes7.png [2] http://glua.ua.pt/~rmatos/f-spot.png [3] http://glua.ua.pt/~rmatos/rhythmbox.png [4] http://glua.ua.pt/~rmatos/ideal-widget.png
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