Disable automatic resizing by default

[Martin]

Binary package hint: totem

What's the rationale for having automatic resizing enabled by default? I find it quite disruptive having the window "jump around" like that. My guess is that most users feel that way too. I don't know, moving controls and elements around without user initiation... is bad in general... I guess... most of the time...

Also, Totem upstream doesn't do it. Fixing this would decrease the diff against upstream. :)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. That has been requested on bug #35055 and several people declared to prefer it this way. We can't make everybody happy and we will keep it this way, closing the request.

[Martin (martin615)]

Well... it's not about keeping everybody happy.

Moving controls around in a, to the user, seemingly random order just because someone who knows about video resolution complains that high resolution videos will be played in a very small window... that's just silly.

Having the initial window size depend on the video resolution... maybe... I guess that's a compromise that might "keep everybody happy".

[Martin (martin615)]

E.g. ... something simple as advancing three steps in the playlist by clicking the next button when the movies are of different size... disaster.

[Martin (martin615)]

Initial window size depend on the video resolution is probably bad too btw. Just let user's watch videos in the size they prefer. :)

Perhaps the problem is that Totem's default window size is too small? Perhaps it could be set to something like 2/3 of the screen size instead of 466x436? (Video nerds who are in to techno bable like resolution, high-definition video and what not shouldn't be too disapointed... and if they happen to stumble upon a small video... so what, scaling is soo good that it probably doesn't matter.)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

You are commenting at the wrong place, the bug tracker is about working on bugs and fix them, if you want to discuss a default setting better to do it on the ubuntu-devel-discuss list, almost no user read will read the bug

[Martin (martin615)]

Ok. I consider it to be a bug though (the behaviour per se which is a result of the default setting).

[Martin (martin615)]

At least for most users (by far).

Sorry for the extra spam.

[era (era)]

I would like to know who those "several other people" are, too. In the meantime, I posted a different suggestion as a new upstream bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503775

[Martin (martin615)]

I don't really see how that would help if Ubuntu's default setting is kept.