Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Toolbars

[William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu>]

Hi Luca,

Luca Ferretti wrote:
[snip]
> So, the toolbar should be something like
>
>         Prev Play Pause Next (GtkToolItem) [Shuffle] [Repeat] Volume[v]
>
> The GtkToolItem, expanded, keep playback controls related to current
> song (prev, play, pause next) and controls related to all songs
> (shuffle, repeat, volume) separated.

I suspect you may be right.  There was some discussion of this for totem 
too:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162949

As I recall, I mentioned in that bug that I have mixed opinions on the 
single play toggle button.  It is a nice, simple, way to indicate state 
and control action.  However, I have found that some users struggle with 
the idea of "un-playing" and prefer to take positive action (ie. pause).

In the last few days of watching people use the new play button I 
discovered another potential problem with a toggle button approach.  I 
saw someone select a song by clicking on it once and then click the Play 
button.  This didn't do what they expected - it stopped playing the 
current song.  Then when they clicked it again it started playing that 
other song again.  I got the WTF look from them.

> Under the toolbar should be placed the info area. Info, as usual, are
> current song title, current song author, current song album and time
> slider. The layout I think could be useful is
>
>         <xx-large>Title</span>		from CurrentAlbum by CurrentArtist
>         mm:ss  --------------[==]----------------------------------
>         -mm:ss
>         
> CurrentAlbum and CurrentAstist are links, right aligned. The time slider
> has on left the elapsed time, on right the missing time.
>
> Attached here is a glade file showing this stuff as well as a new menu
> layout and a mini-window I've in mind to propose. But I'll describe
> those stuff in another thread, maybe tomorrow.

The glade mockups look quite nice.  Very simple and clean.  They will 
handle large font sizes very well.

Where might source specific actions go in this scheme?  For instance, 
where might we put an eject action for CD sources, or Burn for playlist 
sources?

Good stuff.

Jon