Re: [Muine] album/song suggestion

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

On T, 2005-02-22 at 14:26 -0800, justin+gnome dicatek com wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> 
> > On T, 2005-02-22 at 13:47 -0800, justin+gnome dicatek com wrote:
> >
> > > What about having a
> > > toggle button instead of the expander widget? It could have a permanent
> > > down-pointing arrow.
> >
> > The bad thing here is that there is no indication what it "does".  As
> > in, an expander widget gives a visual clue of what is going on.  I'm not
> > so sure having a window resize on toggling a checkbox is such a good
> > idea.  Clicking a button oughtn't resize a window ..
> 
> I personally find it a little confusing, but what do you think of the
> iTunes model of modifying the behavior of the window min/max buttons,
> and snapping window resizes to hide interface elements for small windows?

I think modifying the behaviour of the window buttons is not a good idea
in gnome, where this all works consistently. Resizing is an interesting
idea, though not nearly as useful as actually having an expander widget.
But I'm just wondering how this would work. When the playlist height
would be under a certain constant the playlist would hide itself. But
then the window would need to snap to the new entirely-playlistless
height. Which, assuming you are resizing from the bottom, might be
confusing.. the window border just jumping up 20 pixels. Though maybe
not that big of a problem, as the resize operation will then have ended
anyway. Hmm ..