Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Feature request - reorder columns

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan kaolin wh9 net>]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 07:21:43PM +1200, Kelly Atkinson wrote:
> I'm an experienced Windows and iTunes user and a newbie Ubuntu user.
> I have a feature request for Rhythmbox and hope this is the right way
> to contact you about it.
> 
> Is it possible to reorder the columns of the library window, perhaps
> by dragging and dropping the column headers?  This feature would make
> the interface more customizable and a little more iTunes-like - this
> could improve the proportion of Rhythmbox usage by new Ubuntu users
> like myself.

There's been a bug open about this for some time
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119406 - three years old..).
I don't think it would be particularly difficult to implement, but it's 
got a few tricky aspects to it.  Where and how is the column order
stored?  Does it affect only the library, or all sources?  Can different
sources have different column orders?  If playlists can have their own
column orders, where is the state stored?  How does the user restore the
default column order?

While this doesn't seem to be much of an itch to scratch for any of the
main developers, we're happy to help anyone working on it.