Totem is missing the playlist. Please reintroduce it.

[Luís de Sousa]

After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 Totem is no longer displays the video playlist in the side panel. As in previous Ubuntu releases, the side panel is disabled by default, but in this release the View menu is missing the Sidebar item in this later release.

The Sibedar item should restored to the View menu.

Thank you.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: totem 3.18.1-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-28.47-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-28-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jul 10 16:06:21 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-05 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: totem
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

The sidebar and playlist available in it were removed by upstream design changes over 2 yrs. ago. Nothing to be done here, not a bug.
For reference - https://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/commit/?h=gnome-3-14&id=125dfb175bf496ad223700bfbb8b107fed9690c6

[Admiral Schlackl (schlackl)]

Removing the side-panel makes the Totem video player useless for most users. Thus I suggest, the missing side-panel IS A BUG! Fix that shit!

[Mark_Hamill (rafamtv)]

When I start Totem, the playlist does not appear.

ii totem 3.24.0-0ubun amd64

~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 17.04
Release: 17.04
Codename: zesty

[Martin Vysny (vyzivus)]

The playlist is nowhere to be found in Totem. Apparently it was perceived being too complex by the Gnome guys.

The problem is that there are previous/next buttons which apparently navigate through some kind of an invisible playlist, so there is a notion of a playlist. That is extremely confusing to the user - apparently there is a playlist, but it can not be opened/shown, which I perceive as a bug in the UI design. True, it's not Ubuntu, it's upstream.

To remove confusion, please either reintroduce playlist, or remove the back/forward buttons.

[Luís de Sousa (luis-de-sousa)]

Totem is hopelessly broken, this application is no longer up to the standards Ubuntu has grown us used to.

The best solution is to install a fork of a functional Totem version like xplayer:
https://launchpad.net/~embrosyn/+archive/ubuntu/xapps

Cheers.

[Raoul Verveer (lazy-r)]

When you open multiple files with Totem, they are put in a queue and will play after each other. The previous and Next buttons still work, but there is no way to see the playlist or to edit it.

Get rid of the playlist functionality entirely or make the playlist view / sidebar accessible via the menu or preferences. The implementation as it stands now provides is confusing and has unexpected behavior.

So, this is a bug, since the user experience is broken and it should be reported upstream as such.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I think using a fork of anything is likely to create more problems in the long term than it solves.

Note that the totem developers do not monitor this conversation.

Please report the issue to the totem developers here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=totem