New features request

[Brandon Snider]

Hi guys.

I'd like to offer a couple of suggestions for how to make g-m better.

First of all, how about making use of the application menus feature in Gnome 3.6? You could throw out the menubar in favour of a couple of buttons and put the items in the File menu in the applications menu.

Second, for those of us that like to watch concert flicks, where each song is its own chapter, how about a selectable list of chapters, rather than repeatedly hitting the next/previous buttons?

Anyway, this post if more of a request for comment than anything, so I'd like to hear from you.

[Kevin DeKorte]

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I don't know about the "application menu" personally I hate the idea
of Mac like menus so you are going to have a hard time getting me to
come around to this idea, and they look really ugly on non-gnome-shell
desktops. These types of menus fail horribly on a dual monitor setup,
which I use on several machines. They even work poorly on a Mac with
two displays. gnome-shell, which I do use has some real issues with
dual head and the amount of mouse movement you need. It is fine for
single head, low resolution displays, but when you have large displays
(24" and 22", with lots of pixels) the experience begins to break
down. I turn on a lot of tweaks to get it the way I like it.And yes I
have made multiple comments on this to the designer of gnome-shell.
How many comments has he written back to me.... 0

As for your second thing, get me a sample and I'll see what I can do.
It depends on if there is any decent metadata to display or not.

Kevin


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[Brandon Snider]

Hi Kevin.

You don't have any matroska files with chapters in them? If not, you can make one easily. Use mkvmerge and you can find chapters files at http://chapterdb.org/. Basically, it's just xml data.

As for your concerns about gnome-shell, I think you should either use a ml or iRC. All of the developers are in #gnome-shell on gimpnet. I talked to them today about his and some of them read your response above.

[Kevin DeKorte]

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On 10/11/2012 01:59 PM, Brandon Snider wrote:
> Hi Kevin.
>
> You don't have any matroska files with chapters in them? If not,
> you can make one easily. Use mkvmerge and you can find chapters
> files at http://chapterdb.org/. Basically, it's just xml data.
>

Actually I do...

I guess you want the info in the playlist on the left, like we do with
non menu DVDs

I'll see what I can do, but it might require extending the playlist
and gmtk to make that happen as we have to make a list of chapters and
titles. I thought about doing this once, but most of the mkv files I
have only have a 4-5 chapters so didn't see why people would ever look
at the playlist. Although DVDs with menus might be able to benefit
from this as well.

> As for your concerns about gnome-shell, I think you should either
> use a ml or iRC. All of the developers are in #gnome-shell on
> gimpnet. I talked to them today about his and some of them read
> your response above.
>

As for spending time on IRC, I really don't have the time for it now.
Between being at my customer site and being behind a proxy I don't
have a ton of free time to argue about stuff on IRC, that I doubt they
will change.

Basically my points are this

1. Top menus bars suck on dual head especially when your active window
is not on the primary monitor. And to tell you the truth I have read
the style guide as to what should go in that top bar menu and it seems
odd. Then for the "gear" where would you put it, on the top right
where the menu bar currently is.. then you have all that wasted space
because we don't really need a "location" entry. So i just don't see
the advantage... but convince me I am wrong.

2. dynamic workspaces are kinda broken, if I accidentally close an app
it is difficult to put it back on the same workspace

3. The way the desktop on the second head does not switch with the
primary desktop by default is wrong. You can set it so that both
monitors are on the same workspace, which I do, but the default config
is confusing to me.

4. On high resolution displays going to the top left and then to the
right of the display to switch workspaces is too much mouse movements.
I know you can do it with the keyboard, but it is not always possible
or desirable to have both hands on the keyboard and mouse. Think
sitting back in a chair and watching a video and you get an email. You
click the player to pause it, top left to bring up workspace list, go
full right to select the workspace, look at email, find it is spam,
delete it, and then go back to top left, then to right to select your
workspace with the video and then resume playing... never touched the
keyboard, but I sure waved the mouse around alot.

Kevin
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