Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] User Interface proposals

[Olaf Hering <olaf aepfle de>]

On Sun, Jan 22, Ronan Jouchet wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:43 AM, Sean McNamara <smcnam gmail com> wrote:
> > 2. Disable Statusbar by default
> >
> > *sigh* OK Gnome, I get it, you want to dumb down the UI. One more
> > thing for me to go into options and enable every time I run Rhythmbox
> > on a new system. This is enough to be slightly annoying, but not so
> > radical as to make me directly oppose it. Now if you proposed to
> > remove the status bar completely "because nobody ever uses that
> > thing", I would basically have to start maintaining my own separate
> > fork of RB that keeps the status bar; sorry but I use that information
> > constantly.
> 
> That interests me. Could you detail the use cases involving looking at
> the status bar? There might be ways to get rid of the status bar while
> still preserving this information available.

Convert an audio CD to FLAC format.
There is now this rather uninformative progress bar instead of what was
shown in 0.13.3.
Showing whats really going on like '#4/#13 (42%)' would be really
helpful.

Olaf