Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Play Queue Bounty

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan kaolin hn org>]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 07:57:55PM -0500, Peter Schmidt wrote:
> And an UI suggestion - I like the way the "ugly" mockups look when
> everything is collapsed and the "less ugly" mockups when the queue is
> expanded. Would it be possible to combine the two, so they would be on
> a single line when collapsed, but when expanded, the Hide Queue would
> be above the queue window and the Show Browser would be below the
> queue? Kind of like the way Netscape 4 toolbars worked.

Hmm.  I'll have a think about this one.  I'm not sure I like the idea of
having the expanders jump around like that, though.

> Also, I just noticed that when you pick a song from the queue by
> double clicking it, the next button doesn't work anymore and Rhythmbox
> just waits when it reaches the end of the song. Maybe when a song is
> doubleclicked in the queue, it should go to the top first and then get
> played.

There are three actions I can think of:
- move the selected entry to the start of the queue and play it,
  removing any currently playing entry from the start of the queue

- skip entries in queue until the selected entry is the first
  (I'd only consider this if the queue also kept the last n entries,
   so this would be reversible)

- play the selected entry out of order, and go back to the first entry
   when it's finished (or when the user hits 'next', etc.)

I'm leaning towards the first at the moment, but it still seems a bit
weird.  Current behaviour is obviously broken, so I'll have to do
something.

-jonathan