Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox Tray Icon Usability & Minor Changes

["tomás pollak" <tomaspollak gmail com>]

Hi Peter!

On 2/4/07, Peter <rhythmbox-devel maubp freeserve co uk> wrote:
> tomás pollak wrote:
> > First of all, the Tray Icon Functionality. Have you ever seen the tray
> > icon in Banshee? It's awesome. Not only does it show the current
> > playing song + the album icon in a tooltip by hovering over, but it
> > also allows you to change songs just by using the scrollwheel over the
> > icon (the best feature EVER). Last but not least, it uses the original
> > Banshee icon and not some generic "music" icon as it happens with
> > Rhythmbox.
> >
> > I believe this shouldn't be so hard to develop, would it? I wish I
> > were a programmer, that way I could develop this stuff myself, without
> > having to ask someone else for it.
>
> I thought this was a good idea, and suggested it some time ago.  The
> good news is it been done :) I'm looking forward to testing it myself...
>
> It should be in the next release, see here for more details:
>
> Show track/album covers on notification popup + tray tool tip
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345592

Nice! However, for what I saw it still misses the excellent feature
"change song on scrollover". Hopefully it'll come in the next-next
release. :)

> > Other minor changes:
> >
> > - What about upgrading the iconset in Rhythmbox? It looks kinda
> > "oldish" with the ones it currently has. Even the official Rhythmbox
> > icon seems a bit outdated compared to the other ones in the menu!
>
> Which Linux distribution are you using?  Don't some of them use
> different icon sets by default?

Nope. I'm using Ubuntu Edgy on a Desktop and Feisty on a Notebook.
Both of them show the "oldish" icons I mentioned.

> > - Is it really necessary to have an "All - Albums - Artists - Titles"
> > selector in the searchbox? When most people search for something in
> > their music program, they actually know what they're looking for (i.e.
> > "lets listen to the Abbey Road by The Beatles"), so there's really no
> > need to put an extra filter since I know that by adding more letters
> > or words, I can keep on reducing the number of results. Besides, I
> > believe they tend to mess things a little in the GUI. Without them,
> > Rhythmbox would probably look better!
>
> It would look better, but I find the ability to search by
> album/artist/track is actually very handy...

Then what about letting the user decide if he wants to have that
search addon? Or perhaps a way to reorder the elements in the
toolbars, such as when you do in Firefox?

Regards,
Tomas