GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 675469
Smarter and configurable ruler timecode / timestamp style
Last modified: 2012-05-30 16:13:47 UTC
Bringing back an old idea back from the depths of the Internet: http://www.mail-archive.com/pitivi-pitivi@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00574.html Current problems: - Visual overload. Rarely do users have timelines that stretch into hours. - We don't display frames. This is important for stopmotion and 3D animation. - The timecode notation is not fully compliant with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMPTE_time_code (may be a separate bug report) Some ideas to solve the problem: - Check the duration of the timeline. Don't show hours if it doesn't make sense. - When moving the mouse over the ruler, display a tooltip with the frame number. - Add an option in the prefs to "Show frames instead of miliseconds". Or perhaps there is a clever, automagic way to determine when users would be most likely to care about frames vs when they care about miliseconds? I may be overlooking something here. Ideas (and patches!) welcome. If possible, I'd like to find a solution that is "automagical" rather than a forced option in the preferences dialog.
I think this should solve the core issue (the need for human-readable times and to show the frame number), without requiring intrusive/complex changes and without requiring additional preferences: commit 56c0b9a55cbf47c60c65f136432ca5f8a67611d0 Author: Jean-François Fortin Tam <nekohayo@gmail.com> Date: Wed May 30 11:33:32 2012 -0400 ruler: Show a tooltip with the time and frame number on hover For the timecode compliance issue, see bug #677108 instead.