On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 08:57 -0800, Noah Roberts wrote:
> On 12/18/05, Ross Vandegrift <ross@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:51:37PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > Simple things don't even work, like, if I click a media link that opens
> > > an external player, then it finishes playing, then I click another link,
> > > rather than opening in the same player it launches a new one.
> > > Eventually I have 50 media players open.
> >
> > It's not the job of the browser to keep accounting on external apps.
> > If it were, it'd be doomed to failure anyhow - that task can never be
> > accomplished.
> >
> > Rather, it is up to the individual applications to do the right thing
> > if there is a session already open.
> >
> > xmms has worked the way you seem to expect since its inception.
>
> At some point I managed to get it not to do that and I don't know how
> I did it. I upgraded and now it opens in the same window, toasting my
> previous song list. I prefer it to open a bunch of windows myself.
>
>
Well it DEFINITELY should never toast the previous song list. The
default action should be "enqueue" not "play".
Lee
Received on Wed Dec 21 00:15:16 2005
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