On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:22:11PM +1000, James Livingston wrote: > On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 23:01 +0200, Baptiste Mille-Mathias wrote: > > Perhaps each component should disappear if not used (no queue if no > > songs were added to it, and no cover widget, if no cover found); and > > in that case one keybinding could be used to hide the whole sidebar ? > > Originally the cover widget did disappear when no art was found. The > problem is that the widget will continually appear, and then disappear, > causing the other sidebar widgets to resize. This isn't good because a) > it's disconcerting and b) it's probably against some part of the HIG. > > On a side note, I just thought about the patch to preserve the aspect > ratio of the cover art. I haven't looked at it, but it might start > resizing the cover widget again (which may, or may not be a problem). The patch doesn't cause any resizing; it still constrains the album art to fit in the same square area that current gets used. If the art isn't square, you wind up a sort of letterboxing effect, with whitespace on either the sides or the top and bottom.
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