Should mousing over (but not clicking) audio files on the desktop cause them to play invisibly?

[Andreas Schildbach]

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 13:59 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> So, by default Gnome has a feature that I've seen confuse at least a few 
> users - if you leave the mouse over top an audio file it will 
> automatically start playing the file, even if it's already open or you 
> have other music playing at the same time.

A possible compromise could be: only play audio preview if file is selected (e.g. single click or cursor arrows). To be discussion: What happens on multi-select?

Best regards,

Andreas