Re: [Muine] album/song suggestion

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

On T, 2005-02-22 at 16:06 -0500, Matthew Good wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 22:44 +0200, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > Here's a mockup for an "expand playlist" feature...
> > http://www.jbaayen.dds.nl/expand.png
> > 
> > Not necessarily trivial to implement though, as the stock expander
> > widget doesnt support what i'm trying to do there.
> 
> I'm not sure if there's a defined Gnome convention for this, but it's
> certainly inconsistent with the other Gnome apps I've seen use this
> expansion widget.  The two that come to mind are "Search for files..."
> and the download progress dialog in Synaptic which both put the arrow at
> the left of the window.  (The Eclipse contact editor is another, but it
> puts a button with an arrow just to the right of the label rather than
> using the real widget.)
> 
> I know that the arrow would bump the label to the right a bit, but I
> think it would be good to stay consistent with other Gnome apps.

That way it would still be incosistent:
All the expander widgets in gnome specify what they do as label. "Show
more options", etc. "Playlist (XX)" does not specify what clicking the
widget will do. The "Playlist (XX)" label is really a label describing
the contents of the playlist widget. (And therefore would be
inappropiate for an "action" widget, imho)
Ideally, we would have the expander widget *above* the playlist label,
show/hiding the entire playlist section. Unfortunately, this is very
ugly indeed.

So this is the best (again, imho of course) i've been able to come up
with ..

Jorn