[Bug 80204] New: position of media controls

[Nik Clayton]

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           Summary: position of media controls
           Product: kdemultimedia
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: FreeBSD Ports
        OS/Version: FreeBSD
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kde-multimedia kde org
        ReportedBy: nik freebsd org


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    FreeBSD Ports
OS:          FreeBSD

With 'mediacontrol' embedded in kicker at the bottom of the screen, the track controls (next, pause, play, stop, etc) are located above the 'track position' scrubber (or seek bar).

In my experience, I hardly ever use the seek bar.  I use 'next track' much more frequently.  From a usability point of view, I'd suggest:

1.  Swap the order of the track controls and the scrubber, so that the track controls are at the very bottom edge of the screen.  Fitt's Law then applies, and I can just throw the mouse down to the bottom of the screen and move it left or right to find the right button, instead of needing to precisely target a small 'pause' or 'next' button.

Ideally, this would dynamically reconfigure, so that if it's in a panel located at the top of the screen, the controls would swap back (to their current configuration).

2.  Do some research to see if any buttons are used over the others, and make them correspondingly bigger.  I would expect (but have no research to back up) that 'next' and 'pause' are used much more frequently, so should probably be twice the X*Y dimensions of the other buttons.