On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Joerg Lehmann wrote:
Hi Dag,
On 04.06.05, Dag Wieers wrote:
I'm writing a JumpTo plugin, which will follow the currently playing song if the playlistwin has focus and a song changes. This is to get the behaviour that the cursor is moving the current song whenever the playlist is begin focussed. As was mentioned in a previous thread, I think this is was people actually expect.
Have you actually tried the new pre-release which allows you to change what is being displayed in the item info window (press ctrl-v). I still think that this pretty much allows you to achieve what you want.
Well, I'm not convinced :) What I envisioned with the plugin was this:
If the currently playing song is selected (in the playlist window) _and_ the song changes automatically. The focus moves with the currently playing song.
Doing this will feel very much what people expect, since if the focus is NOT on the currently playing song, people are not interested to have that information in the songinfo window. But if the currently playing song is selected there is no good reason not to assume that the listener is interested in the current song, even when that changes.
Anyway, I think that such a thing is probably stretching a bit to far the notion of a plugin. Maybe it's better to make this add a configuration option to turn such a feature on and off.
Well, I don't like the ctrl-v key that much as it is something a user has to learn about (and at least know something like this exists). While an automatic (follow the current song if that's where my cursor is) implementation is much more user friendly.
But I might have overlooked some other usage scenarios that conflicts with this though. I thought implementing it as a plugin to see if it would convince you was the smartest thing :)
Any feedback welcome. What do others think ?
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