Playlist widget too small; adapt to file name length and increase number of rows
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Audience |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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elementary UX |
Bug Description
Using audience-bzr, I noticed recently that the playlist widget has been further minimized.
Unfortunately the box seems to be sized (horizontally) to just fit the buttons, cutting off a large part of the filename / title for videos with lengthy names.
I would rather this box adapt it's horizontal size according to the file name. Not infinitely of course, but allow for longer names and reveal the ending of the name, like so:
1. Stretch horizontally to ~70% of the filename / title length, not exceeding the width of Audience's window.
2. Omit known dot-three extensions ( '.mkv', '.avi', etc)
3. Display as many characters as fit from the beginning and end of the title / filename with an ellipsis in the middle ("Very Long Series...n 5 - Episode 22")
Perhaps the playlist could also adapt it's vertical height, to 50% of the playlist length, not exceeding the height of Audience's window.
::EDIT:: Number of rows has increased to three; this is manageable if not ideal.
Related branches
- Robert Roth (community): Approve
- elementary UX: Pending (ux) requested
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Diff: 16 lines (+2/-1)1 file modifiedsrc/Widgets/Playlist.vala (+2/-1)
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milestone: | none → freya-beta2 |
Changed in audience: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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milestone: | freya-beta2 → 0.1 |
Updated description for most recent changes.
Almost there, but still hurting for longer filenames and especially seeing the end of the filename.
Three rows is much better than one, but a dynamic height (to accommodate very long playlists) would be even better.