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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Impressions about KDE 3.1 beta 2
From:       Gav Wood <gav () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-10-14 10:22:20
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On Monday 14 Oct 2002 10:43 am, Christoph Held wrote:
> On Monday 14 October 2002 04:25, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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> > On Sunday 13 October 2002 08:02, Irwin K wrote:
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> > kaboodle is designed for embedding (e.g. inline in web pages, or in a
> > side bar) and for playing single items (e.g. no playlists). it has a
> > completely different purpose to life than noatun, though they use the
> > same
> > infrastructure (aRts)
>
> I think kaboodle should be removed from the kmenu. Users are supposed to
> start noatune. kaboodle could still be used in websites, but it would be
> less confusing.

i heartily agree.

putting two "Media Player"s on the menu just invites confusion.

there should be a media player that is explicitly started (i.e. the KDE media 
player), and then kaboodle which may be embedded into a web page or whatever.

to be quite honest i don't even like the way kaboodle is made the default for 
playing mp3s or whatever - when i click an mp3 on my desktop i expect it to 
initiate (or communicate with) the same program as clicking a playlist. if it 
does not, i might open a playlist, then decide to listen to one mp3 in 
particular (and not in the playlist) and it would play over the playlist (and 
make a horrible noise). at the very least it should be a nice easy option to 
change.

also, it would be nice to be able to right-click and have an "Add to current 
playlist" option as well as a "Open over current playlist": sometimes i want 
one functionality, other times i want the other.

also, it would be nice if playlist files opened correctly in noatun. 
currently, they do open, but there's an extra item at the top of the playlist 
whose filename is the playlist, even though it's not a media file. in 
addition to this, it does not start playing automatically, even though i 
checked the "Start playling automatically" (or whatever) checkbox.

they're not exactly big problems, but they make my life as a user more 
difficult than it need be.

gav

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Gav Wood <gav@kde.org>
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