Re: [Kaffeine-user] Playlist GUI

[Giorgos G. <gou...@cs...>]

> I suggest this way: The videowindow in the center with docking areas
> around it. Make the control panel and the playlist dockable with the
> possibility to cut them off. Make all windows, except the control panel,
> hideable. Add a tab for file browsing (and one for CD/VCD/etc?) to
> playlist.
>
> So you can get multiple behaviours:
>
> * if you hide the video window and move the playlist below the control
> panel you get this xmms feeling
> * if you move the playlist on the right/left side of the video window
> its more like a default kde app
> * if you cut off the control panel and hide playlist you get a
> xine-gui/mplayer behaviour
> * ...

I agree with most of your suggestions, but first of all we (you) might want to 
thing what kaffeine is going to be:
i)Do we really want complex playlist facilities or
ii)Do we want a simple to use, yet powerful, and fast media player that can 
play ALL TYPES of media?

Because for (i) we already have juk. The problem with OS media players is that 
they are trying to be as featurerich as posible, but seldom do developers 
care about ease of use. For example, xine can play almost any kind of stream; 
does kaffeine play all supported streams embeded in web pages? And should we 
create a complex playlist while the above is not true? 

In my opinion we should concentrate on developing software that is easy to 
use. Spending a month coding a sophisticated playlist or a media library or 
whatever will be of no use to the everyday user that wants to click on a file 
or link and start playback. Only after we reach that point, should we 
consider to extend kaffeine to more complex features.

Giorgos