Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Tray Icon Usability & Minor Changes

["tomás pollak" <tomaspollak gmail com>]

> As others have mentioned, the current SVN (and so the upcoming release)
> displays the cover art in the tooltip and song-change notification.
>
> Currently using the scrollwheel over RB's tray icon changes the
> application volume. We could change it to be "switch tracks" if the
> general consensus is that doing that is better. Switching tracks is
> probably a lot more common than changing the volume.

I stongly believe that changing songs is a much better option. Most
people (including me) also have the volume icon in the taskbar, with
which you can change the overall volume. And yes, changing tracks is a
lot more common than changing the volume. Besides, most new notebooks
also come with multimedia keys that also let you change the volume.

...by the way: any hopes for adding multimedia key support in RB as
Banshee does? (You can skip songs by pressing the Prev/Fwd key, no
matter which window is active). Now that's nice.

> > - What about upgrading the iconset in Rhythmbox? It looks kinda
> > "oldish" with the ones it currently has. Even the official Rhythmbox
> > icon seems a bit outdated compared to the other ones in the menu!
>
> There are some newer icon up at
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350994. I've been meaning to
> post to the list about them, to see what people think.

hmm.... "sanitise podcast feed names" doesn't look like icons to me! :)

> > - Small one: when switching from Library to Podcasts to Play Queue or
> > whatever, I believe the searchbox input should automatically receive
> > focus. You should be able to start typing right away, and not have to
> > press anything to do so.
>
> Stealing focus like that is *really* bad for accessibility, and people
> without a mouse - it means that if you are using the arrow keys to move
> down the source list, you have to tab back to it after each source
> change.

Hmm... yes, you're right. And what about making Tab go first the the
searchbox and then forward to the other GUI elements? Haha, perhaps
I'm going too far with this one.. Sorry!

Regards,
Tomas