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Bug 154831 - better keyboard navigation
better keyboard navigation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-10-07 21:52 UTC by Gabor Farkas
Modified: 2004-12-29 22:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Gabor Farkas 2004-10-07 21:52:47 UTC 
currently you can only move forward/backward using the left/right-arrows, with a
step of approx 20seconds..

i am usually using mplayer, which "navigates" the following way:
left/right-arrow:   back/forward 10seconds
up/down-arrow:      back/forward 1minute
pg-up/pg-down:      back/forward 10minutes.

this way i can easily navigate even  inside a movie file with the keyboard, and
it's very convenient..

i am not proposing the exactly same keyboard shortcuts (up/down seems ot be
reserved for volume-up/down already), they can be any keys... but there should
be a way to make bigger steps back/forward...
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2004-12-28 23:09:59 UTC 
From the (updated) README:
Left arrow:
        Go back 15 seconds
Right arrow:
        Go forward 60 seconds
Shift+Left arrow:
        Go back 5 seconds
Shift+Right arrow:
        Go forward 15 seconds
Ctrl+Left arrow:
        Go back 3 minutes
Ctrl+Right arrow:
        Go forward 10 minutes

2004-12-28  Bastien Nocera  <hadess@hadess.net>

        * README: upd
        * src/totem-screenshot.h: update copyrights
        * src/totem.c: (commit_hide_skip_to), (on_skip_to1_activate),
        (move_popups), (totem_action_handle_key),
        (on_window_key_press_event): fix controls popup width with RTL locales,
        Make Ctrl+Arrows seek further in streams (Closes: #154831)
Comment 2 Gabor Farkas 2004-12-28 23:53:00 UTC 
thank you very much for implementing this feature...

but are you sure that this nonsymmetric seeking time if the best solution?

i can understand the reasons (you usually want to seek forward a lot to get to
the scene where you stopped the video, but going back is usually done in smaller
steps),

but having it symmetric is also useful sometimes( i want to go back to catch a
scene, so i usually do something like
back,back,back,back,oops-it-s-too-much,forward. and at this point i expect the
movie to be back at the point where my last 'back' press happened. with the
assymetric way it would be back, back, back,oops-its-too-much,forward,back,back)...
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2004-12-29 22:00:13 UTC 
Most of the time, you can go "back-back-back, oops too far" and then use the
Ctrl or Shift modifiers. Also try the "Skip to" dialog by pressing 'S', the
version in CVS is quite easy to use, and I'm opened to feedback on making it
more straight-forward.