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Idea #24087: Remove the music preview with mouse hover

Written by stanislavs1 the 20 Mar 10 at 22:03. Related project: MPlayer Movie Player. Status: New
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The feature sounds nice when you read about it. In reality, it gets really annoying after a while. I realize you can disable it if you don't want it, but if little features like this will be added over time, Ubuntu will become too bloated.
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Solution #1: Remove it!
Written by stanislavs1 the 20 Mar 10 at 22:03.
Totally remove the music preview while mouse-over an audio icon.
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Solution #2: option in menu
Written by cdude42 the 21 Mar 10 at 15:07.
when you right click and the menu appears, add something that says, disable hover playback, or something like that. Because im sure theres tons of people that still use this.
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Solution #4: Option in Nautilus Preferences
Written by Akerbos the 23 Mar 10 at 23:14.
This is a Nautilus thing, so let Nautilus handle the setup.
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Solution #7: Single-click and hold for preview
Written by mydoghasworms the 19 Apr 10 at 14:19.
Instead of previewing an audio file when you hover over it, allow the user to click and hold for e.g. 1 second on the file icon to start the preview. At this point the little overlay should appear and the audio start playing.

Then, when you let go of the mouse button, the preview stops playing.

This behaviour should be configurable between the old and new behaviour in gconf, so users who still want the old preview behaviour can still have it.
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Solution #8: Click to play/pause audio preview
Written by davide the 25 May 10 at 21:15.
Audio preview in Nautilus is a tremendous nice feature, improve it with single click play/pause.
On mouse rollover display the "play" icon, after click event show "pause" icon, play sound until it finishes or until the user fires another click on audio icon. This way you can listen all the sound while moving your mouse.
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http://sitoz.org/public/brainstorm-audio-preview.png

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stanislavs1 wrote on the 21 Mar 10 at 18:02
First, please throughly read what I wrote before writing a solution.

"I realize you can disable it if you don't want it, but if little features like this will be added over time, Ubuntu will become too bloated. "

Akerbos wrote on the 23 Mar 10 at 23:16
That may be right, but with a user _and_developer community consisting mainly of hopeless nerds, you will never get a new feature implemented resp. an old feature removes without the option to do the opposite.

Darwin Survivor (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 24 Mar 10 at 00:08
@stanislavs1 Considering the inclusion of mono, openoffice, etc I hardly think a mouseover (which is almost entirely handled by native GTK anyways) is a bloat problem.

Ssdg wrote on the 24 Mar 10 at 10:17
#4 is on my opinion the best way to control sound preview... and the already implemented one.

ave2 wrote on the 29 Mar 10 at 11:39
I love this feature

Auzy wrote on the 29 Mar 10 at 23:40
Agreed with darwin

dE wrote on the 15 Sep 10 at 03:47
"but if little features like this will be added over time, Ubuntu will become too bloated. "

That doesn't happen in a world without Windows.

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 1 Feb 11 at 01:13
Deleted Solutions #6 and #9, both 'Leave it as it is'.


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