[Android] [TROLL] Audio GUI: should we keep the stop button?

[Edward Wang]

On 2014-01-17 07:45, Adrien Maglo <magsoft at videolan.org> wrote:
>
> I think this button comes from the ancient tape world and it tends to 
> be removed in every media player.
> Google play music, the Android native audio player and Winamp do not 
> have a stop button. In video mode, VLC and all VLC competition I 
> tested do not have a stop button.

The more you copy the competition, the more people will just use the 
competition...

Look at how Firefox has lost much ground because they are blindly 
slavishly copying Chrome.

>
>>> An other point is that the stop button currently empties the play
>>> list. The users may feel annoyed by this if they press it by mistake.
>>
>> It should not empty the playlist; if it does, it is a bug currently. For
>> example, on VLC desktop when we click the stop button, our playlist does
>> not magically disappear.
>
> Malte's design has not been though to integrate a stop button.
> Let's say, you press stop. The media player disappears but the play 
> list is kept as you wish. How do you recover the play list once you 
> are in the audio browser? 

The 'History' tab currently stores the current playlist.

Regards,
         Edward Wang