Use screen space better

Bug #523943 reported by Jendrik Seipp
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Decibel Audio Player
Fix Released
Undecided
Anonym25712

Bug Description

Hi Francois, thanks again for this awesome music player!

One thing that annoys me though is that it is taking up much screen space for stuff that isn't really needed. This is especially important on netbook screens. I can see at least 2 areas where screen space could be gained:

- Hide shuffle, repeat and clear buttons: I cannot remember a single time in my life when I have used the shuffle or clear button in any music program. The repeat button maybe got used once or twice. Those buttons could be moved to the menu bar.

- Make borders smaller: In my opinion 5px (instead of 12px) should be enough.

Applying those changes let's me view 15 tracks in the playlist at once instead of 12 on my netbook. Still not very many, but an improvement.

Those adjustments could be incorporated by adding a new mode called "Netbook" for example. Changing to that mode would then hide the three buttons and make borders smaller.

What do you think? Would you be interested in a patch?

Revision history for this message
Anonym25712 (anonym25712) wrote :

Added a 'lean' mode that removes the bottom buttons, but kept spacing as those are recommended by the Gnome HIG.

Changed in decibel-audio-player:
assignee: nobody → François Ingelrest (athropos)
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Anonym25712 (anonym25712) wrote :

See v1.07

Changed in decibel-audio-player:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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