Collapsible menus on Rhythmbox have their arrows on the wrong side

[Chris Wilson]

The arrows that indicate the state of the collapsible menu in the Rhythmbox browser are on the wrong side of their respective menus. The attached screenshot shows that they are on the right on the menu, when they should be on the left for the following reasons:

1. The large space between the end of the menu name and the arrow make it unclear that there is a relationship between the two, leading to user confusion.

2. Having the arrows on the left is what user's have been trained, through their use of software, to expect. Having them on the right violates the principle of least astonishment [1].

I propose that the arrows be moved over to the left.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: rhythmbox 2.97-1ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 23 21:36:00 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Comment from the developer:

"Changing the layout here probably isn't as simple as it seems, but it
definitely could be improved."

[rithik g (gkrithi)]

there are no expanders in side pane any more.

so probably invalid.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Further to comment #3, upstream bug was closed "RESOLVED OBSOLETE" on 2016-12-11
Closing as "Invalid" as there are no expanders in the side pane now