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sakithb / media-controls

A media indicator for the Gnome shell.
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Scroll between different media #159

Open Bluesheep33 opened 3 weeks ago

Bluesheep33 commented 3 weeks ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I want to be able to control all media on my desktop in an easy and fast manner. This gnome extension makes it easy to do, but for multiple media controls, you need an additional left mouse click to head to the control page of another media source.

Describe the solution you'd like I'd love it if I could use my mouse wheel to scroll down/up to the next/previous media, as this saves me an additional mouse click. This can further improve the HCI of this extension.

ChrisLauinger77 commented 3 weeks ago

Not sure about that, what do you think @sakithb ?

Bluesheep33 commented 3 weeks ago

It could also be introduced as a by default disabled setting in preferences.

Or alternatively implement easy navigation for keyboard instead of mouse (but that would have to probably be opened as another issue, closing this one). This means switching between buttons with tab/shift+tab or the arrow keys and using the enter key to interact with them.

Here are examples of other extensions using this: clipboard indicator vitals

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/23163c42-b5ac-46ab-a9ea-bd22b901824d

Personally, I don't prefer mouse to keyboard or vice versa. If either of the two could get some shortcuts for navigation (so the scroll wheel for the mouse or the tab/arrows + enter for the keyboard) it could really help.

sakithb commented 3 weeks ago

I think implementing easy navigation by keyboard is a good idea. I'll have to think about it first (choosing appropriate shortcuts etc).