holding the FW or RW button should have an effect

Bug #694258 reported by frizzle21
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
The Sound Menu
Fix Released
Wishlist
Conor Curran
Unity Foundations
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

currently (natty alpha), holding the forward button in the playback controls of the Sound Menu has no effect, except for the usual song skip operation upon release.

since the user is already acquainted with the fact that pressing that control will move playback into a direction, the user would naturally assume that holding the control would do so even more rapidly.

i suggest:
either ramp playback speed for fast tape-style forwarding/rewinding upon sustained button press
or skip to the next playlist.

Revision history for this message
Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Fast Forward would be really nice.

Changed in indicator-sound:
status: New → Confirmed
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frizzle21 (frederik-nnaji) wrote : Re: [Bug 694258] Re: holding the FW or RW button should have an effect

On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 10:49 +0000, Omer Akram wrote:
> Fast Forward would be really nice.

or fast rewind, if i want to hear a certain phrase again!

Conor Curran (cjcurran)
Changed in indicator-sound:
status: Confirmed → Opinion
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
assignee: nobody → Conor Curran (cjcurran)
assignee: Conor Curran (cjcurran) → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

I thought I had specified this ages ago, but I hadn't. I'd written just about everything about the playback controls, except what they actually do! I've fixed that now, and yes, holding them is supposed to rewind and fast-forward. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoundMenu?action=diff&rev2=50&rev1=49>

Changed in indicator-sound:
status: Opinion → Confirmed
assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) → nobody
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

(Sorry, it looks like I'm not permitted to reassign the bug back to Conor.)

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Updated the buttons' accessible labels too. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoundMenu?action=diff&rev2=51&rev1=50>

Conor Curran (cjcurran)
Changed in indicator-sound:
assignee: nobody → Conor Curran (cjcurran)
Revision history for this message
Conor Curran (cjcurran) wrote :

Using the existing seek method in the MPRIS spec, I will release next week with this implemented.

Changed in indicator-sound:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
milestone: none → 0.6.0
Conor Curran (cjcurran)
Changed in indicator-sound:
milestone: 0.6.0 → 0.6.1
Conor Curran (cjcurran)
Changed in indicator-sound:
milestone: 0.6.1 → 0.6.2
Conor Curran (cjcurran)
Changed in indicator-sound:
milestone: 0.6.2 → 0.6.3
Conor Curran (cjcurran)
Changed in indicator-sound:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Conor Curran (cjcurran)
Changed in indicator-sound:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity-foundations:
status: New → Fix Released
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