[gentoo-dev] Nautilus idea.

[gentoo-dev] Nautilus idea.

[Ian Leitch]

I just sent the following to nautilus-list@gnome.org, I'd like all your
opinions aswell. 

Regards,
Ian.

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Hi all,

I had this idea the other day but wasn't too sure what to do with it.
Nautilus just sprang to mind and it seems a perfect candidate. 

The Idea: IconMon (Just made that up ;))

An extension to Nautilus's video playback abilities that allows videos,
live streams(conferences, web cam, security video) etc, to be shrunk to
icon size (or a user defined size) and given a small caption just like
an icon's title, the video should also shed its window and sound muted.
Upon double click the video is brought back to normal size, the window
borders reappear and the caption disappears.
Upon single click or mouse over (I like this bit) the sound is unmuted
but the video remains in icon state. 

I will try knock up a Flash animation of anyone is unclear.

I'm sure Ximian would love something like this, because if I'm not
mistaken they are aiming their products at the workplace?

So let me know what you think!
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Nautilus idea.

[Svyatogor]

Totem already installs a module for nautilus, which replaces the icons
of videos with a small screenshot from somwhere with in the moovie. And
i'm pretty happy with it. With you idea however I'm a bit worried about
performance. I.e. I like to keep nautilus window open in the background
- does it mean that it will keep on playing that thumbnailed moovie? i
wouldn't like it...

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:09:36 +0000
Ian Leitch <port001@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I just sent the following to nautilus-list@gnome.org, I'd like all
> your
> opinions aswell. 
> 
> Regards,
> Ian.
> 
> --------
> Hi all,
> 
> I had this idea the other day but wasn't too sure what to do with it.
> Nautilus just sprang to mind and it seems a perfect candidate. 
> 
> The Idea: IconMon (Just made that up ;))
> 
> An extension to Nautilus's video playback abilities that allows
> videos,
> live streams(conferences, web cam, security video) etc, to be shrunk
> to
> icon size (or a user defined size) and given a small caption just like
> an icon's title, the video should also shed its window and sound
> muted.
> Upon double click the video is brought back to normal size, the window
> borders reappear and the caption disappears.
> Upon single click or mouse over (I like this bit) the sound is unmuted
> but the video remains in icon state. 
> 
> I will try knock up a Flash animation of anyone is unclear.
> 
> I'm sure Ximian would love something like this, because if I'm not
> mistaken they are aiming their products at the workplace?
> 
> So let me know what you think!
> ---------
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Nautilus idea.

[Niels Vandekeybus]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:49:06 +0200
Svyatogor <svyatogor@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Totem already installs a module for nautilus, which replaces the icons
> of videos with a small screenshot from somwhere with in the moovie. And
> i'm pretty happy with it. With you idea however I'm a bit worried about
> performance. I.e. I like to keep nautilus window open in the background
> - does it mean that it will keep on playing that thumbnailed moovie? i
> wouldn't like it...

it would be nice eyecandy if it just played the first 10 seconds or so, though I'd probably disable it for performance...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Nautilus idea.

[Stroller]

On Oct 30, 2003, at 5:09 pm, Ian Leitch wrote:

> ...
> An extension to Nautilus's video playback abilities that allows videos,
> live streams(conferences, web cam, security video) etc, to be shrunk to
> icon size (or a user defined size) and given a small caption just like
> an icon's title, the video should also shed its window and sound muted.

I was watching a video on my Mac last night, and was noticably 
impressed with the way Expose handled it.

It seemed a little juddery scaling between full size & preview (whilst 
scaling several other windows at the same time) but I can't reproduce 
that now - it's *absolutely* smooth. Videos continue to play as they 
resize so that all windows fit on the screen, and when animation 
squashes them minimised [1]. As long as they're being playing in the 
QuickTime player they also continue to play as a 5mm - 30mm icon in the 
dock.

The key words are that Mac OS X allows "arbitrary transformations on 
windows". I'm not sure how useful it is to be able to shrink moving 
video to icon-size, and I'd agree with anyone that says that the Genie 
effect in my screenshots is no more than a gimmick, but with the recent 
release of OS X.2.3 & it's Expose function - you probably have to try 
it before you appreciate it - but now it's a fantastically useful tool.

I think that anything like this is a hell of a task within the current 
framework of X, however.

Stroller.


[1] See http://mac.stroller.uk.eu.org/Genie1.jpg 
http://mac.stroller.uk.eu.org/Genie2.jpg 
http://mac.stroller.uk.eu.org/Genie4.jpg 
http://mac.stroller.uk.eu.org/Genie4.jpg 


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