Re: [xine-devel] Re: small xine-ui usability improvements

[Daniel Caujolle-B. <seg...@cl...>]

Hi Michael,

Le sam 01/11/2003 =E0 19:52, Michael Roitzsch a =E9crit :
> Hi Daniel,
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> > 	Sorry for the delay, i was far from home, then i changed my HD in my
> > laptop, then i updated my distro, and fight two days to see Evolution
> > working again...
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> No problem. I am a bit afraid of upgrading from my SuSE 8.2 to 9.0 too.
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	;-), backup/restore, a sin cycle.

> > > During my writing of xine-ui end user documentation, I accumulated
> > > what I hope to be usability improvements. Patch is attached for you
> > > to review.
> > >
> > > * I did not document the keymapping, but rather resorted the
> > > entries in keymap dialog to a more logical order (important stuff
> > > on top, similar things close together) and renamed some of them
> > > slightly.
> >
> > 	Ah, okay. I hope Lirc user will no complain about the renaming.
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> Lirc only uses the symbolic names, right? I only changed the verbose=20
> descriptions, so this should be no problem, or does Lirc somehow rely=20
> on their order?

	Oh, okay, that's fine (i didn't checked the patch for this topic, it
was just a guess).

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> > > * I also changed the default keymapping for the 0% to 90% seek keys
> > >   from Meta3-[0-9] to Ctrl-[0-9], since that is easier to type and
> > >   was still free.
> >
> > 	No problem, anyway you can use another keymap file, if you want
> > (like me ;-) ).
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> I also use another keymap file...  :)
> I am just too used to pressing '0' to restart the stream.
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	Welcome to the (fight) club ;-)

> > > Would you accept this patch?
> >
> > 	Yep. The only thing i see it you remove those famous '...' for a
> > menu entry which popup a window (the 'get from').
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> Yeah, I thought long about this one and even KDE seems to be unclear=20
> about this. Example KMail: When right-clicking on a mail, the context=20
> menu allows you to move or copy the message to another folder. The menu=
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> entry opens a submenu with the available target folders. Now the=20
> copying menu item says "copy to", while the moving item says "move=20
> to...". (At least in the German version.) But I figured the genral=20
> consensus seems to be that the "..." should be used to indicate that=20
> this item does not execute instantly by clicking on it, but opens a new=
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> window. But the "get from" executes instantly, so I removed the "...".=20
> I hope you don't mind, I just committed the patch. If you want the dots=
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> back, tell me.

	Okay, no problem. BTW, (since i was unable to force Siggi to do that),
since you know german, it would be really nice to update to german .po
file ;-)

Cheers.
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73's de Daniel "Der Schreckliche", F1RMB.

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