Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Re: Play order UI

["Gunnar Steinn Magnússon" <gsm gunnarsteinn com>]

On 3/20/06, Alex Lancaster <alexl users sourceforge net> wrote:

>>>>> "JL" == James \"Doc\" Livingston  writes:

JL> G'day everyone, A while back, Paul Boyd posted a patch to change
JL> the play order selection from shuffle and repeat toggles to a full
JL> menu.

JL> I've posted an updated patch (and make it use GtkUIManager), which
JL> can be found at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163196 ,
JL> and a screenshot is at
JL> http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctau/115113425/.

JL> I would like to see this in cvs, as it lets people access the
JL> other play orders that exist, and we might see some of the others
JL> that people have been talking about for a while (like Album
JL> Shuffle).

JL> The only potential issue that I can think of is that it removes
JL> the play order buttons from the toolbar. Does anyone think that
JL> they change the play order enough to be worth a toolbar item? If
JL> so, I can add it as a "menu button" on the toolbar, however it is
JL> a bit hard to do with GtkUIManager in a way that works on GTK 2.6
JL> - so I won't bother doing it, if no-one wants it.

I would like to keep a toolbar item, or some other way to inform the
user as to the current algorithm being used, e.g. linear or some form
of random selection, because it's easy to forget.  There should be
some way of finding out what the status is at a glance, without going
through the menus, so I'd vote for some kind of feedback, ideally a
toolbar button.  Making it work for gtk2 2.6 would be nice. ;-)

Alex
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As I change often between playing playlists in shuffle mode and whole albums in linear order (and wish I could play a single podcast with nothing following) I would like to keep the toolbar button so I know which order RB is set.

But I'm looking forward to get the alternative play orders as they would make few of my automatic playlists unneccessary (e.g. the top-rated-but-not-recently-played playlist) :)

Gunnar Steinn