On 02/15/2011 10:18 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote:
This here was and is imo be the most clear and straightforward
contribution to the problem this thread is trying to address:
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 14:36, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com
<mailto:m...@canonical.com>> wrote:
A window's close button should close the window. Anything else the
program does should aim for the least overall distraction.
In the perfect implementation, Rhythmbox or Banshee would then have a
way of continuing playback where you last left off..
Meaning even if Rhythmbox or Banshee was quit somehow, it should
resume right where you left it upon quit, by simply pressing the Play
button in the Sound Menu's playback controls.
If R or B would take longer to load because it was unfortunately quit
beforehand, then so be it, but "distraction" here would be to make the
user go back into the library / manager view to resume playback where
it was last stopped.
Nothing wrong with session saving imo, even though it never really
worked in GNOME, not even for Nautilus windows, which imo is a sad
thing (or did i use/configure it wrongly?).
Having to reload the application again is going to make the environment
feel quite a bit slower. Banshee is a complete media manager suite and
with that comes a weighty startup. I do understand that tablets are now
in the equation but an overflow of applications has been handled in a
better manner for years now (swap). Should we lower the usability for
one specific type of hardware? Tomboy takes quite an extraordinary
amount of RAM as well (more than Rhythmbox in my case) but I don't see
Ayatana jumping to break anything on that front.
Also, I will ask: Will this "perfect implementation" make it to natty
final? Or will this be a horrifically broken first step? The indicator
applet was a pretty useless mess for a few releases until it matured. Up
until that point it wrecked the desktop experience, being little more
than a little chat client launcher. So far the implementation has been
to have Rhythmbox close (without session saving at all). It's been
sitting there, broken. What's new in Natty? Banshee has been broken as
well. Will 11.10 feature Exaile and Amarok closing and 12.04 feature
session saving? There is an unfortunate lack of proper planning in these
features - if you're going to break things, break 80 percent of it on
the first go, not 15 percent every release.
--
-Brett Cornwall
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