Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] rhythmbox interface

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 10:08, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il ven, 2002-11-22 alle 20:39, Jorn Baayen ha scritto:
> > > > 
> > > mmmhh, groups or playlist should be reorderable, library don't (or just
> > > form title, artist, time... list header), isn't it? 
> > 
> > Yeah. But we need some way to queue up songs as well, so if oyu are
> > playing a song from the library, and you feel like hearing a certain
> > song after, it should be possible to do that. Not sure how though.
> > 
> 
> You can already do it! Personally I wait song end searching wished song
> in list, then double click, then "clear" search to have all songs
> available ;-) 

Yeah, but that's not exactly nice, waiting like a dog for the song to
finish and then quickly clicking the next ;)

> 
> Sorry, as you can see this isn't a trouble for me, so I don't understand
> well :-(

Well the idea is you can queue songs, so you can listen to music without
having to worry about when the current song is ending ;)

> 
> > 
> > Yes, kind of. Have a look at
> > http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Files/ah_blaat2.png. This one is a lot cleaner
> > IMHO; thanks to Andrew Higginbottom. It has problems though; the
> > dropdowns wont work if you have lots of artists/albums, and whole
> > artist/album dnd wont work anymore.
> > 
> 
> Not sure, just png-felling, but use dropdown in browser seems less
> usable then actual, expecially 'cause you don't have an header. But,
> yeah, you use less space.

Well, as long as the dropdowns display "All artists"/"All albums" by
default, this shouldn't much of a problem, I think. But it wont work
anyway, for the other reasons above ..

> 
> 
> > 
> > I think having playlists in the main sidebar would be better, and it
> > will be no problem when we use a normal list.
> > 
> 
> I agree. Real big trouble in sidebar is if you have a lot of playlist,
> it became "unreadable", besides big icons are cool. Do you mean
> something like iTunes, isn't it? BTW: usability team dislike sidebar:-(

Yeah. Well yeah the sidebar sucks ;)

> 
> 
> > > and, finally, something like a file selector using library order... but
> > > it's too much expensive.... 
> > 
> > Yeah.. but these are still not attacking the fundamental problem.
> > 
> 
> I know:-) OK, I'll ride my personal Gundam Mobile Suit and blame it
> whit Mega Bazooka!

Heheh :)

Cheers
Jorn

> 
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