Makosuke said:
Ah, it says "Always on top" in the prefs, but "Float on top" in the menu. Didn't catch the nuance when I said that.
You're seriously complaining that you can't click around to type in your word processor beneath a transparent DVD window?
I understand the showoff appeal of being able to type behind a transparent window like that, but isn't asking for real functionality a little much, considering that this has essentially zero practical use. (At least, I hope--are there people in the world who really want to edit text THROUGH a playing video? It's distracting enough having a video running onscreen at the same time as you're working on a document, and working through the video has got to cause some kind of brain damage. Or, at the very least, make the video less fun to watch and your writing less coherent.)
As for VLC cranking up the DVD drive, there's not much that can be done about that as far as I know--it's due to the way it reads data.
No, seriously, I actually can read text and watch video concurrently. I work as a copy editor, and, depending on the particular task that I'm performing, I don't actually have to understand what I'm reading. In order to parse a sentence, and understand its grammar, I need only understand the syntax of the grammar itself.
Every now and then I actually do have to type things into my word processor since professional writers actually do, every now and then, make mistakes. (That's a joke, by the way - I almost never recieve a 'professional document' that isn't full of errors.)
Yes, I would agree with you that if you were writing, say, a letter to your boss then it would be pretty difficult to write and watch a DVD movie at the same time - in fact, I'm guessing that that would be almost impossible.
Still, for what I'm doing, a DVD movie can really help to make a tedious task a lot more enjoyable.
And, yes, I almost always have the DVD player on or the television app. running or iTunes playing while I'm editing material. In fact, about the only thing that really distracts me is absolute silence!
