Re: [Banshee-List] Some minor interface "improvements"

[Tanuva <tanuva googlemail com>]

Am 28.11.2010 19:23, schrieb Dougal Stanton:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Alex Launi<alex launi gmail com>  wrote:
> > Hi everyone, so I spent the last two days hacking away at some minor changes
> > to the interface and just posted my patch to bugzilla for review. I wanted
> > to include the community in the UI review. The tl;dr; version is that I got
> > rid of the next button that included the shuffle options, replacing it with
> > a normal next button, and moved shuffle and repeat to the bottom left hand
> > corner.
>
> I largely agree with the changes you've made, and wanted to expand on
> something since we're talking UI here.
>
> Is there a better way of defining the "Shuffle by ..." options so they
> actually mean something? Maybe it's just me but I've no idea what
> "Shuffle by Artist" will actually do. Does it shuffle all songs by the
> current artist? Does it shuffle all songs but keep identical artists
> apart? Similarly for other By Album, By Rating etc. These might be
> really nice/useful options but if they are as opaque to everyone else
> as they are to me they probably won't be used very often!
>
> The only option I end up using is Shuffle by Song as that appears to
> be the shuffle I expect. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> D

For my interpretation of "Shuffle by Artist", I simply select The Artist 
in the library and then activate normal shuffle. Do we have redundancy 
here or do these options do different things?

Marcel