On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 09:56 +1200, John Stowers wrote: > I expect some of you might have seen this by now, but the elementary > folks have started their own Rhythmbox fork [1]. It might be useful for > some inspiration.
Hmm. There are some interesting ideas in there, but I think they've gone just a little too far :) This does, however, solve one of the things I dislike about the Rhythmbox interface - by default, the toolbar and info bar at the top use a *lot* of vertical space. On a typical widescreen monitor, most of it is an empty expanse! There is no reason to have a 1280-pixel wide seek bar unless you regularly seek through 24h long media files... (I sometimes turn it off to get the ~16px back.) That said, they've removed just a touch too much; By moving everything to the toolbar, there's no room for things like the shuffle/repeat controls, the browser mode switch (which I usually turn off, again for vertical space), or buttons added by plugins. In addition, completely removing the menu bar on top of those other changes? Along with the toolbar button removals, they've left... well, not very much functionality at all. There are better solutions for that - e.g. the 'mac style menubar' gtk patch can save space by moving the menu bar into the panel. Unless a general solution to the menubar issue is found, it should stay. I'm sure there's some sort of compromise that can be done :) -- Calvin Walton <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
