Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Source groups

["Christophe Dehais" <christophe dehais gmail com>]

Hi,

It seems the density of information has decreased with this. I'd say
the more thing can be seen without vertical scroll the better.

Christophe


On 2/28/07, Mika Wahlroos <mpw iki fi> wrote:
> William Jon McCann wrote:
>
>  > We just committed source groups support to SVN trunk.
>  > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359740
>
> Looks quite nice. I particularly like being able to hide certain groups,
> such as music stores and other online services while still being able to
> view them very easily and quickly when needed.
>
> As a downside the source list now takes up more space vertically than it
> used to, and I think it's quite large already even with a relatively
> small number of playlists. It's particularly evident to me since I don't
> have a very high resolution display and because I'm a heavy user of the
> play queue and like to keep it in the sidebar. The option to hide groups
> alleviates this a little, though.
>
>  > Give it a try and let us know what you think.
>
> One nice addition would be to save the status of the groups so that
> collapsed groups would also appear collapsed the next time RB is started.
>
> I'm also not completely sure if it's a good idea to forcibly show import
> errors and missing files as separate entries in the source list. They
> used to be hidden as subcategories under the Library source but now at
> they are are very visibly shown directly in the source list.
>
> I get a few import errors every time Rhythmbox is started due to a
> couple of text files (lyrics) and a pdf file residing in the music
> directory hierarchy. That's preventable, at least in my particular case,
> but the behaviour is similar for missing files, and that may not be so
> good. Many people may have non-persistent tracks, such as those on
> remote hosts (accessed over GnomeVFS, for example) or removable drives,
> and while it's a good idea to allow the user to find out which tracks
> are currently (and perhaps temporarily) unaccessible, I'd prefer not to
> have it forcibly shown to me all the time.
>
> Generally, though, looks cool.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mika
>
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