http://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/http://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/welcome/favicon.ico?15159353402017-02-26T23:41:08ZRedmineAudacious - Feature #705: re-arrange playback controlshttp://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/issues/705?journal_id=26192017-02-26T23:41:08ZLiviu Androniclivml@opmbx.org
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<p>They're positioned very intuitively: Prev and Next are at the extremes (left and right), in the middle comes the Play/Pause combo followed by the Stop button. This is an arrangement that makes sense, to me at least.</p>
<p>So if you look at the current layout in Audacious,</p>
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<p>this request would boil down to moving the Next button to the right of Stop. Incidentally, this would make the toolbar layout consistent with the systray icon c-menu:</p>
<p><img src="http://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/attachments/download/630/Screenshot_2017-02-26_23-31-01.png" title="audacious systray c-menu" alt="audacious systray c-menu" /></p> Audacious - Feature #705: re-arrange playback controlshttp://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/issues/705?journal_id=26452017-03-23T06:27:17ZJohn Lindgrenjohn@jlindgren.net
<ul><li><strong>Category</strong> set to <i>plugins/gtkui</i></li><li><strong>Assignee</strong> set to <i>John Lindgren</i></li></ul><p>I can see some sense to either arrangement, but I tend to agree with you if only for consistency. The Winamp interface has always had Prev-Play-[Pause]-Stop-Next, and it matches the ZXCVB key shortcuts.</p>
<p>Incidentally, the Qt UI has Play-[Pause]-Stop-Prev-Next, so we currently have three different layouts. Ugh.</p> Audacious - Feature #705: re-arrange playback controlshttp://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/issues/705?journal_id=26472017-03-23T16:43:31ZLiviu Androniclivml@opmbx.org
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<p>I can see some sense to either arrangement</p>
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<p>I would actually agree with you on this: I too see value in both arrangements, though in different contexts.</p>
<p>For the <em>toolbar</em>, I would favor exclusively the <strong>Prev-Play-[Pause]-Stop-Next</strong> layout. As mentioned earlier, this seems to be the most natural way of ordering the controls.</p>
<p>For <em>menus</em>, however, I see sense in having the Play button first in the list, like this: <strong>Play-[Pause]-Stop-Prev-Next</strong>. This is how things are currently in the Playback menu (which seems to be the same layout as in the Qt UI): <br /><img src="http://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/attachments/download/642/Screenshot_2017-03-23_16-34-41.png" title="Audacious Playback menu" alt="Audacious Playback menu" /></p>
<p>Incidentally, this is the arrangement used in Sonata for the systray c-menu: <br /><img src="http://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/attachments/download/643/Screenshot_2017-03-23_16-36-51.png" title="Sonata systray context menu" alt="Sonata systray context menu" /></p>
<p>So while having two different arrangements for the layout and for the menus (main or systray) would break consistency, I see value in having the Play/Pause button as the first one in the menus. In my opinion the single most useful item in the systray c-menu is the Play/Pause button, which is what one would use most often and would expect "immediate" access to it. This is why making it easily accessible on top of all other controls would make sense to me...</p>
<p>I hope all this blather makes at least some sense!</p> Audacious - Feature #705: re-arrange playback controlshttp://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/issues/705?journal_id=26482017-03-25T00:41:50ZJohn Lindgrenjohn@jlindgren.net
<ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>New</i> to <i>Closed</i></li><li><strong>Target version</strong> set to <i>3.9</i></li><li><strong>% Done</strong> changed from <i>0</i> to <i>100</i></li></ul><p>Liviu Andronic wrote:</p>
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<p>... I see value in having the Play/Pause button as the first one in the menus. In my opinion the single most useful item in the systray c-menu is the Play/Pause button, which is what one would use most often and would expect "immediate" access to it. This is why making it easily accessible on top of all other controls would make sense to me...</p>
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<p>Well, that only works if the system tray is at the top of the screen. :)</p>
<p>I've updated the toolbars; I think I'll leave the system tray as-is for the time being.</p> Audacious - Feature #705: re-arrange playback controlshttp://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/issues/705?journal_id=26492017-03-25T11:04:31ZLiviu Androniclivml@opmbx.org
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<p>Well, that only works if the system tray is at the top of the screen. :)</p>
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<p>True! Good point -- haven't thought of that. Though I would still argue that in the systray having Play on top makes sense as much as having Quit on the bottom, whether or not the systray is located top or bottom.</p>
<p>Anyways, thanks for looking into this!</p>