G'day everyone, The recent discussion about the queue has gotten my inspired to do some hacking on Rhythmbox to try to fix some one the things that have been annoying me recently. As Johnathan seems to have the queue under control, I though I'd grab a couple of things off my "Things to do when I stop being lazy" todo list. Some of these are fairly trivial, and some are larger projects. I'm planning to start having a go at some of this in the next few days so if anyone has any ideas/suggestions/whetever let me know. Especially any of the following 1) Someone has done this and I forgot/didn't know about it 2) Reasons why it isn't a good idea, or better ideas on how to do something 3) Any ideas that you have for future features that might affect how I should go about any of them. So on to my list of Things That I Think Would Be Nice(tm) * Being able to sort playlists. Not being able to do this is particularly annoying with large automatic playlists (e.g. my "Australian Music" one again); trying to find one song in a list of 600 that has no real ordering is frustrating. The best way would probably be to allow clicking on the column headers (like the library), but a "Sort by X" in the playlist editing dialog would be enough. [Now that I think about if you could do one, the other would be trivial] * Adding a scrollbar to the automatic playlist editing dialog (the above mentioned playlist has ~40 criteria, and doesn't fir on screen). * As mentioned ~2 months ago - using the playlist you right clicked on for the popup menu, not the one that is selected. * Adding a "new playlist" item to the popup menu when a playlist is clicked. People who have no whitespace left have a lot of playlists and may add new one more often. * Allowing you to have more complicated playlist conditions than a simple A and B and C, or A or B or C. I don't think it'd be that hard to do, but designing a UI that makes sense could be very difficult. A possible simpler version could allow conditions of the type "Is in playlist A" and "Isn't in playlist B"; although this could lead to nasty circular references (urgh). * Allowing you to use the browser/search box in playlists. * Allowing you to drag an Artist/Album/Genre into an automatic playlist, and have it ask you whether you want to add it as a criteria (this makes less sense with "And" playlists). Also being able to drag a song, and having it ask whether you want to add the Artist/Album/Genre/Just this song/whetever might be nice. Also a couple of questions about the development branch that someone might know the answer to: 1) Is not being able to rate songs by clicking in the entry view widget (library/playlist) supposed to happen? (I'm guessing it would have to be, but I was more wondering why) 2) Does tag editing work at all? I passed the configure option, but I haven't seen anywhere you can edit them (i.e. the properties dialog). I know this is [probably] still under development so don't expect much. I'm sure you all have notice that I use automatic playlist a bit (only a tiny bit... really... trust me :) Cheers, James "Doc" Livingston -- In God we Trust. All others must submit an X.509 certificate.
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