A longer seek slider in the main UI looks really ugly, especially since there probably are not many people using it. A pop-up window which can be triggered through a keyboard shortcut or a menu entry containing a longer slider and a way to enter a specific time using the keyboard might be better.
Christophe Le jeudi 11 août 2005 à 18:49 +1000, James Livingston a écrit : > On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 21:32 +0100, Chris Seaton wrote: > > There seems to be a huge ammount of wasted space in the Rhythmbox GUI > > between the seek control and the title, artist and album labels. Could > > the seek control not be made longer? > > > > Something like this mockup? > > > > http://www.chrisseaton.com/rhythmbox.png > > The problem I see with that design, is that it doesn't work well with > long song titles or large fonts, because the title will run out of room. > > > When you have a very long file (hours) seeking with that tiny tiny > > control is very hard. > > The "merge" branch had started some changes to the header. A screenshot > of what it had, along with a few additional changes I made (moving the > cover art to the header) is up at > http://www.ids.org.au/~jrl/rhythmbox/rb-header.png > > There are three main things this did: make the slider much longer, get > rid of the clickable links and move the volume, shuffle and repeat > control to be below previous/play/next. > > > I personally think most of the changes it made are good because a) a > longer slider is handy, as you mention b) the clickable links are fairly > pointless and c) the shuffle and repeat controls don't belong in the > status bar. I actually think we need a better way to choose the play > order than those two buttons, but that's a separate issue. > > > Could someone at least tell me where I could modify the source to change > > the GUI myself? There don't seem to be any Glade files for the GUI and > > poking around the source I can't see any expand property or anything > > that obvious being set to control which of the labels or the seek > > control expands to fill the gap. > > Because it uses a lot of custom widgets, it isn't in a glade file, it is > generated by source code. > > widgets/rb-header.c contains the song info & slider, > shell/rb-shell-player.c contains the main layout of that section. > > > Cheers, > > James "Doc" Livingston > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
