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

[Alexandre Perraud]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:35 PM, XilasZ <xilasz at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Le 17 janv. 2014 16:29, "Alexandre Perraud" <4leyx4ndre at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> I agree, there is one currently hidden in advanced preferences, we can
> move it to the actionbar menu ?
>

Yes, but actually, this function restarts the app...


>
> >
> > 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
> >>
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