Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Prev/next button behavior

[Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin mail utexas edu>]

Colin Walters wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 16:10, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
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>>Previous will refuse to go before the beginning of the history, instead 
>>it will just restart the first song when pressed.
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>What about greying it out at that point instead?  That would be a little
>trickier - you'd have to queue a timer in RBShellPlayer to re-enable the
>button when we pass 3 seconds.
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There are at least 3 ways to call rb_shell_player_do_previous() (button 
click, mmkey press, bonobo). I think it's safer to define the behavior 
of the call in all circumstances, and maybe in addition (in another 
patch) disable the button.

>>When next is pressed at the end of the history, it will pick a "random" 
>>song from the current filter. ("random" is currently actually random, 
>>but needs to be changed to shuffle eventually. This proposal doesn't 
>>address that.)
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>How about making it pick a song not in the history?
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That's part of fixing "random" and so should go in a different patch

>>Double-clicking a song deletes all of the history after the current 
>>song, adds the double-clicked-song to the end of the history, and starts 
>>it playing.
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>Sounds good.
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I'll wait till tomorrow to implement this so other people have a chance 
to comment.