ikt
February 8th, 2010, 02:15 PM
Hi all,
Small rant + I'm looking for opinions,
I'm just wondering and it might just be me but does the totem volume controller annoy you at all?
The main problem being that the volume bar is vertical instead of horizontal, this means you have to click a button then move the level of volume,(often this will bug out and appear below the screen in full screen mode and sometimes not grab the click exactly so you are clicking slightly above it to get it to move) instead of what appears to be every single other media player on the planet which has it horizontal.
Horizontal:
Audacious2: http://audacious-media-player.org/local-images/screenshot_2.png
Songbird: http://www.getsongbird.com/images/carousel/gallery_big_01.jpg
Windows media player: http://images.apphit.com/217/screenshot_2.png
Winamp: http://www.winamp.com/help/File:Mainwindow.png
DivX player: http://www.file-extensions.org/imgs/app-picture/3637/divx.gif
VLC: http://images.videolan.org/images/screenshots/vlc-win32.jpg
Vertical:
Totem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot-Movie_Player.png
It's competing with Windows Media Player 6 (windows 95) in terms of looks as well, is this the best we can do for a default media player?
Small rant + I'm looking for opinions,
I'm just wondering and it might just be me but does the totem volume controller annoy you at all?
The main problem being that the volume bar is vertical instead of horizontal, this means you have to click a button then move the level of volume,(often this will bug out and appear below the screen in full screen mode and sometimes not grab the click exactly so you are clicking slightly above it to get it to move) instead of what appears to be every single other media player on the planet which has it horizontal.
Horizontal:
Audacious2: http://audacious-media-player.org/local-images/screenshot_2.png
Songbird: http://www.getsongbird.com/images/carousel/gallery_big_01.jpg
Windows media player: http://images.apphit.com/217/screenshot_2.png
Winamp: http://www.winamp.com/help/File:Mainwindow.png
DivX player: http://www.file-extensions.org/imgs/app-picture/3637/divx.gif
VLC: http://images.videolan.org/images/screenshots/vlc-win32.jpg
Vertical:
Totem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot-Movie_Player.png
It's competing with Windows Media Player 6 (windows 95) in terms of looks as well, is this the best we can do for a default media player?