Aero Taskforce

lawrencejob wrote on June 11, 2008, 9:36pm

Two things. First, I completely agree, and to this date wonder why they still can't create an attractive media player for the Vista environment. The whole thing needs a lot of work.

Next, I don't think this is directly the Windows UX team's fault. There appears to be a separate team working behind WMP.

thenonhacker wrote on June 12, 2008, 5:57am

Excellent UX Suggestion.

I bet the Media Player Team will implement this in the next version!

GRiNSER wrote on June 12, 2008, 8:34am

I've to add: Please give us a button to hide this thing when you opened it accidently. It is very annoying that you have to wait for so long until it goes away.

longzheng wrote on June 12, 2008, 9:15am

@GRiNSER: I've tweaked my registry settings to never show it if you hover over it (very annoying).

http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html

Q: Can I change the timeout for the pop-up (toast) window in the taskbar player?
A: You can do this in v11 by creating a REG_DWORD value named "DeskbandFlyoutTimeout" under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences . If you set it to 0x0, it'll never show up. If you set it to 0xFFFFFFFF it'll always show up. Anything in between it'll show up for that many milliseconds. The normal setting is I believe 3000ms. If that value is not present, the default is used.

lotharamious wrote on September 22, 2008, 2:23am

Yep... No brainer.

MrDan wrote on October 30, 2008, 11:47am

Windows Media Player taskbar mode has been removed from Windows Seven in favor of the new taskbar functions.

FutureMillennium wrote on March 6, 2009, 10:09pm

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Christ no. It's already very, very annoying when I accidentally mouseover it as it is. It's fine when the songs switch, but even then I don't see a reason why it should take more space.