On Sun, Apr 06 2014, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
First and foremost I don't think that we need extra keys for jumping such short distances as 5 or 10 seconds. Just use "fast forward" or "fast rewind" for that.
Have you tried 5s steps? I really prefer 5s steps over fast forward/rewind. With mplayer-plugin I have 6 buttons for 5s steps, 1min steps and 10min steps, and IMO you skip faster to the right place, than with fast forward/rewind. Perhaps it's just me...
What I would be willing to accept is a patch that makes the skip delta of the yellow and green keys (currently a fixed +/-60s) configurable.
Yes, that's fine. But what's the problem with a second skip-value for buttons 1 and 3?
I might even go as far as making the yellow and green keys skip only a small distance when pressed and released, and skipping a longer distance when held pressed (repeat mode). It could even be made so that the distance increases over time, so the longer you hold the key pressed, the farther it skips.
For adjusting a clock, it's perhaps ok, but IMO for audio/video it's not the best ergonomics.
All in all, skipping is done with the yellow and green keys, there will be no additional keys for "shirt skips", because FFWD/FREW can easily be used for that. Let's keep it simple! ;-)
I agree to keep it simple. But would you approve a patch, that adds just one further key pair (1 + 3) for a second skip value? The patch would be really simpler and the user experience would be enhanced!
Or a Boolean configuration option for making 5s-skips instead of fast forward/rewind?