Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] rhythmbox interface

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il ven, 2002-11-22 alle 15:48, Jorn Baayen ha scritto:
> On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 06:03, Lee Willis wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 20:00, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > 
> > > What we need:
> > > =============
> > > 1. The music library we have now
> > > 2. A way to specify what song to play after the current one
> > > 3. Playlists (reorderable subsets of the library) [1]
> > > 4. A clean way to do this, without awkward views or stuff like that :)
> > > 
> > > What other applications do:
> > > ===========================
> > 
> > I'd really like to see Windows Media Player in the list of applications
> > you reviewed to get ideas. As a recent first time user of Media Player 9
> > (I think it's still in beta) it has a pretty intuitive interface that we
> > could probably get some good ideas from ... Most notably it takes a
> > "Tree-view" approach to what rhythmbox currently uses separate boxes
> > for. It's tree has top levels of:
> > 
> > * Now Playing
> > * Artist
> > * Album
> > * Genre
> > * Radio
> > * My Playlists
> > 
> > [Or similar - but you get the idea]
> 
> Yeah, I looked at this. Forgot to put it in the list though .. but I
> think it sucks: Using treeviews is always a pain and with a huuuge tree
> you lose overview really quickly. What I love about iTunes and the
> current RB is that it's really easy to browse the collection, without
> losing overview.
> Also organizing stuff is a pain with a tree, how would you add an album
> to a playlist? Select album, hold, try to scroll down, and drop it in a
> playlist. Yikes.
> 

I agree:-) Really a pain for /me. BTW I think rb lib is more simple to
key navigate then treeview