On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 21:32 +0100, Chris Seaton wrote: > There seems to be a huge ammount of wasted space in the Rhythmbox GUI > between the seek control and the title, artist and album labels. Could > the seek control not be made longer? > > Something like this mockup? > > http://www.chrisseaton.com/rhythmbox.png The problem I see with that design, is that it doesn't work well with long song titles or large fonts, because the title will run out of room. > When you have a very long file (hours) seeking with that tiny tiny > control is very hard. The "merge" branch had started some changes to the header. A screenshot of what it had, along with a few additional changes I made (moving the cover art to the header) is up at http://www.ids.org.au/~jrl/rhythmbox/rb-header.png There are three main things this did: make the slider much longer, get rid of the clickable links and move the volume, shuffle and repeat control to be below previous/play/next. I personally think most of the changes it made are good because a) a longer slider is handy, as you mention b) the clickable links are fairly pointless and c) the shuffle and repeat controls don't belong in the status bar. I actually think we need a better way to choose the play order than those two buttons, but that's a separate issue. > Could someone at least tell me where I could modify the source to change > the GUI myself? There don't seem to be any Glade files for the GUI and > poking around the source I can't see any expand property or anything > that obvious being set to control which of the labels or the seek > control expands to fill the gap. Because it uses a lot of custom widgets, it isn't in a glade file, it is generated by source code. widgets/rb-header.c contains the song info & slider, shell/rb-shell-player.c contains the main layout of that section. Cheers, James "Doc" Livingston -- Plouj> I can't put a finger on my problem(s). @Pezmaker> Plouj: touch your finger to your forehead -- reported on bash.org
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