Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] A couple suggestions

[Mika Wahlroos <mpw iki fi>]

Hi,


I'm not a Rhythmbox developer but thought I'd jump in anyway.

On 22/02/11 08:04, Damien Radtke wrote:
>     * When the play queue finishes, stop playing rather than return to
>       the previously-selected song. This is how players like Banshee
>       work, and I know that when my play queue empties, I expect the
>       player to stop playing

I'm not quite sure about this one. Now that I think of it, continuing 
playback from where it left off after the queue has been emptied might 
be unintuitive to some people. However, I've always thought of the queue 
as an "override", sort of like a jukebox that can be used to choose my 
specific picks, after which playback continues doing its own business 
(e.g. continue playing randomly, or a playlist, or whatever).

I imagine this may have been close to what the developers of the queue 
were also thinking because the current behaviour suits this model pretty 
perfectly.

It would be interesting to know how and for what people use the queue in 
general.

>     * Move the play queue sidebar to the right side, when visible. This
>       gives much more room to see the tree browser, cover art, and
>       queue, although currently telling Rhythmbox to hide the queue
>       hides the entire right panel

I use the context pane which also places itself on the right, and having 
an entire sidebar of its own would increase the total number of sidebars 
to three in this case. I'm not sure if that's a good idea.

Also, where would the queue source reside when the queue is set to not 
be sidebar? Having such a component jumping from the left to the right 
with a simple tick of a menu item seems a bit ugly to me, although I 
can't really explain why, so I'd be interested in more comments 
regarding this.


Mika