A few tweaks to the fullscreen controls interface

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While the fullscreen controls in gnome mplayer are vastly superior to most
media players out there, I do think they could use a little work.

1. When the controls are present, they shouldn't push the video out of the
way, overly the controls on top of the video so everyone doesn't get
deformed when the controls hide or show themselves.

2. To help prevent no. 1 being a problem, only show the fullscreen controls
when the mouse is near the bottom of the screen, instead of just showing it
if the mouse moves.

3. Please use the proper video progress bar, like vlc and totem use. I like
the ability to drag the progress marker to the correct point of the video.
Also, my favorite theme animates the progress bar you use, and it is mildly
distracting.

4. Add a second row to include a vital piece of information to the
fullscreen controls: The name of the media playing. You could arrange it
like this:

<-------------------------Progress Bar----------------------->
[Buttons] Whatever.avi(paused) 05:00/10:00 [Volume/Fullscreen]

Please consider my requests, I believe they would improve gnome mplayer
without breaking from your simple and clean interface.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tychoq...@gmail.com on 14 Mar 2009 at 5:02

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1. Kind of a limitation of the video area
2. Not a bad idea, I will consider
3. Been discussed several times, and until I create my own widget (which I 
might do)
I'm going to leave it as it. I have tweaked the progress bar as it is, and you 
can
click and drag the media using it. I agree that the animation may be 
distracting, but
I don't see a work around as of yet.
4. The whole point of the interface is to avoid the double row, so you'll see 
why I
won't go to that. 

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 14 Mar 2009 at 8:34

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Alright, how about this?

In windowed mode, you essentially have 2 rows already, there's the video 
controls
down the bottom, and the File Edit View Help menu up the top. There's no 
problem in
windowed mode, because you can see the application's title bar which contains 
the
video name.

What if in fullscreen mode, you replaced the File row with the application 
title and
had it appear/disappear similar to how it does now. This would keep the 
interface
simple, free up some room on the bottom row for a longer progress bar (by 
moving the
fullscreen button to the top to be more consistent with most applications with 
this
function) and as a side bonus, make point 1 less of a problem for widescreen 
videos,
as when the controls appear and disappear, the video will remain centered.

[File Icon] Whatever.avi (Paused)          [Fullscreen]

                           Video

[Buttons]<-------Progress Bar 05:00/10:00----->[Volume]

Original comment by tychoq...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2009 at 8:29

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I have updated the tracker in SVN and I think it is a good solution, so you may 
want
to try it out. I have blogged about it at
http://kdekorte.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-media-tracker.html

Also, why do you want to see the filename when the video is in fullscreen mode? 
Can
you tell me why that is needed?

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 17 Mar 2009 at 7:47

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after having fun trying to compile mplayer and then getting missing 
dependencies from
trying to install gnome-mplayer, i think I'll just wait for a binary, I can see 
where
your going from the screenshot in your blog.

Do those little markers all along the bar represent portions of time? if so, 
that's
awesome.

I'm not a music person, so I don't like the idea of playlists. I tend to watch
episodes of things in order, and when I get to the end of one, I'll navigate to 
where
I keep whatever show, and chuck the next one in. I don't tend to remember which
episode I last watched, especially if I've been watching alot of it, and as it
stands, I have to restore the video window before I can grab the next one.

To be perfectly honest, I don't understand why your asking this question. There 
are
so many possible reasons why I would want to know exactly what I'm watching. 
When in
music mode, you have devoted 390x100 pixels of screen space for identifying 
what your
listening to alone, according to your screenshot here:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8vVUG9EUYMg/Sb_eQxjZrDI/AAAAAAAAC8I/JYY9ABdyERE/s400/S
creenshot-Avril+Lavigne+-+Girlfriend+-+GNOME+MPlayer-1.png
To say it's not important just because your playing a video that's taking the 
whole
screen is kinda backwards.

You currently have the I key bound to showing the name of the media in windowed 
mode.
So why not in fullscreen mode?

Original comment by tychoq...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2009 at 7:24

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Ok, I hooked up the I key in fullscreen mode to display the 'display_name' of 
the
media file on the mplayer OSD for 1.5 seconds. This is the same thing that is 
in the
Open Recent menu. Hopefully this will work for you.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2009 at 1:08

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Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 20 Mar 2009 at 9:15

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