Playback speed display on top of already open playback editing box is annoying

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Playback speed display on top of already open playback editing box is annoying #6704

Open nalin243 opened 3 weeks ago

nalin243 commented 3 weeks ago

Your idea

No need to have the playback value showing box pop up if the user has double clicked on the playback slider and already has the playback speed box open.

Problem to be solved

When we double click on the playback slider a small box opens that allows us to manually input the playback value. On moving the slider in that box another box opens up on top of the already open box showing us the live playback changes which seems a little annoying and redundant.

Prior art

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Additional context

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SteveDaulton commented 2 weeks ago

When we double click on the playback slider

Are you referring to the Play at Speed slider? If so, that is so that you can set the playback speed.

nalin243 commented 2 weeks ago

@SteveDaulton Yes that is what I was talking about. Did you watch the attached video? I am talking about the additional small box that shows up on top of the already open playback speed editor. We can already see the playback speed changing in the text box, what is the point of another box showing the same thing appearing on top of it?

LWinterberg commented 2 weeks ago

What's happening here is that the tooltip is getting its own window for non-modal dialogs. This appears to be a linux-specific bug, or perhaps even a DE/WM-specific bug.

SteveDaulton commented 2 weeks ago

I don't think it's a bug Leo. I believe it's an accessibility feature.

Sighted users can drag the slider to the required speed, and the speed is indicated in the tooltip.

Screen reader users enter a double click on the slider widget, that opens a dialog window (as shown in nalin243's video), so that they can enter the required playback speed.

LWinterberg commented 2 weeks ago

The tooltip is supposed to look like this:

It's not supposed to have a separate window titled <2> as shown in OP:

SteveDaulton commented 2 weeks ago

It's not supposed to have a separate window titled <2> as shown in OP:

Yes, that's a bug. I (mistakenly) thought that nalin243 was complaining about the pop-up window on double-click. FWIW, it looks like this on my machine (Ubuntu + XFCE):

Screenshot_2024-06-19_15-45-35