Citi Boy<citi324@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Axel Dörfler<axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The point is not only obstrusiveness, but also simply wrongly placed
functionality.
What you consider wrongly placed functionality is a feature that
extends the usefulness of the application.
Sure, but that doesn't make it right to add it. Especially if there
already is an application that does the job much better.
While it might be handy to play mp3s from within Tracker, it's
functionality that
doesn't belong there.
Since you bring the example of Tracker, check out Nautilus (Gnome's
file manager), and you will find that it is capable of playing audio
files w/o opening them (by placing the mouse over the icon); [...]
this
capability is extremely useful and there is no harm done with having
it there,
as it is totally unobtrusive and does [...]
I find that totally useless, and at best annoying. For one, I
practically never need to listen into songs this way, and when I do,
it's much faster to start MediaPlayer than to wait for the delay until
it starts playing. And MediaPlayer even allows me to seek. And it works
for movies, too.
And above all that, it's annoying that the system starts playing some
(additional) music depending on where I rest the cursor.
This "feature" is a good example of wrongly placed functionality.
