Issues with the seekbar in combination with mpd

[JaVaEs]

I found 2 bugs using the seekbar while playing music with mpd.

1. Clicking on a spot on the seek bar doesn't affect the position of the slider. There is just a short stutter in the music and then playback continues at the same position.

2. Because of the first bug i have to grab the slider and slide it to the position i want to. While sliding it i hear fast noises of the skipped part of the track.

I'm using mpd 0.15.0 and panflute 0.6.2

[Paul Kuliniewicz (kuliniew)]

This isn't specific to MPD. The default behavior of the underlying GtkScale widget is to update its reported position whenever it moves, which causes the noises when sliding it around: you're actually seeking lots and lots of times very quickly. Similarly, the default behavior when clicking next to the indicator is to move it slightly to the left or right, resulting in a very small seek. Neither behavior is particularly desirable.

The proper way to do this would be to have any click in the seek bar jump directly to that position, and for drags of the indicator to not trigger a seek while the user is still actively moving it around. Or, in other words, to have the seek bar behave like it does in Rhythmbox, which is much more intuitive.

A workaround until this gets fixed is to middle-click in the seek bar to jump to the desired position.

[JaVaEs (jan-vanesdonk)]

thanks for the workaround

[Mandx (mandx)]

Also, using mousewheel on the slider occurs the same as clicking it. But, it should be posible to disable seeking with the mousewheel, and use this to some other funcionality, like volume changing.