Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Source groups

[Mika Wahlroos <mpw iki fi>]

Alex Lancaster wrote:

> My main (and really only) concern is that it removes the ability to
> re-order the playlists within the playlist group.
>
> ...
>
> Willam Jon notes a couple reasons in the bug why he thinks this is
> desirable: one is that it sorts playlists in a consistent order.
> However, I would much prefer that it remain possible to re-order them
> (at least retain a gconf option) because alpha ordering sometimes is
> not desirable and I'd like to group in a particular way that doesn't
> involve a naming convention based on alpha ordering.
>
> However, I recognise that I may be a lone voice in this request, so
> I'd also like to get some feedback from other users as to whether they
> would also miss this feature.  Do you use this feature?

I do. Perhaps not so much directly, but indirectly. Traditionally, when 
I create a new playlist it appears at the end of the group. It's obvious 
where it goes, and I can easily find it when filling it with tracks from 
the library. At least for me it's quite common to do that a lot when 
creating a playlist, so having the playlist easily locatable is perhaps 
even more important at that point than in other situations.

Furthermore, I often have the play queue shown in its full glory in the 
side panel. It takes up a lot of screen estate, so usually not all of my 
playlists are visible at the same time. I like to have the most commonly 
used ones at the top so that they're accessible without scrolling the list.

With that said, I haven't used playlists much lately and I probably 
wouldn't have even noticed the change yet if you hadn't mentioned it. I 
guess it doesn't matter so much, but unless there's a seriously high 
number of playlists, I fail to see how alphabetical listing would make 
finding a playlist significantly easier than having them in a random 
order would. Please correct me if there's actual evidence to the 
contrary, because mine is just a gut feeling. On the other hand, being 
able to order the items in the list so that they make sense in some 
other, more personal way would seem to make finding things on the list easy.


Mika