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sircharlo / meeting-media-manager

A cross platform app to download and present media for congregation meetings of Jehovah’s Witnesses in any language. Features include automatic media downloading, easy drag-and-drop adding of additional media, and media presentation tools for meetings.
https://sircharlo.github.io/meeting-media-manager/
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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[Feature]: Add playback timeline tooltip #3218

Open ux-git opened 5 hours ago

ux-git commented 5 hours ago

Is your feature request related to a problem?

M3 won't allow to drag the video timeline while a video is presented, but it doesn't explain why. Currently, it might look like a bug.

Describe the solution you'd like

When user tries to drag the playhead, the app can say something like "You can rewind the video only when it's paused"

Describe alternatives you've considered

I tried explaining this to every brother, but that's an infinite process :lau

Additional context

No response

mtdvlpr commented 4 hours ago

What do you think about this solution? When playing, the slider thumb is hidden so that it's more like a loading bar.

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mtdvlpr commented 4 hours ago

Implemented in 448ab40ea45d693309ab61dbfc53a03a9b9ed40b

ux-git commented 4 hours ago

It's OK, but it has its downsides. In most cases users won't even be aware that there's the slider thumb for some rare cases. And when such rare case happens, the stress level won't allow to discover new ways to find it.

This way we're hiding the fact that user can rewind the video in my opinion. I guess it would be better to provide the tool, but also explain how it works. Unless you don't want to allow the rewind.

mtdvlpr commented 4 hours ago

I think it's just as "hidden" as any other feature (custom durations, zoom picture, rename media, hide media). They're hidden until the right conditions apply (hovering, right-clicking, etc).

I don't think the rewind feature is so important and used so often that we explicitly need to reference it. It's just there when you can use it and hidden when you can't use it.

sircharlo commented 3 hours ago

Another possible alternative would be to have the tooltip say "To rewind or fast forward, pause the media first" instead of the current media time when the user tries to interact with the timebar while media is playing.