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

[Alexandre Perraud]

Hello,

I would say we should not keep the Stop button, I agree with Adrien's
points.

But by the way, we need a button, to REALLY quit the app (kill ?), it's a
very requested feature.

Alex.


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Edward Wang
<edward.c.wang at compdigitec.com>wrote:

> 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
>
> _______________________________________________
> Android mailing list
> Android at videolan.org
> https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/android
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/android/attachments/20140117/f56acab4/attachment.html>