Track progress indicator does not appear inactive at startup

[Chris Wilson]

When you first start Rhythmbox, the progress bar that indicates the current position in the track is set to being active, allowing the user to interact with it despite there being nothing to do. the progress bar is, however, set to inactive when playback finishes, so I think that the function that set it so should be called during initialisation of the app.

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: Wed Oct 24 08:34:16 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)

[Andrew McCarthy (andrewmccarthy)]

I think this is a case of misleading UI layout. The horizontal slider in the top-right corner isn't a volume control but a position-in-track control. Start something playing and you can use it to jump around the track. If instead you click on the speaker icon at the right-hand end you get a vertical volume control that seems to work normally.

Am I understanding this right? If so, it's really a design issue. Perhaps the horizontal slider should be inactive or invisible unless something is playing.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Does anyone know if the volumne slider (whatever the widget is) is capable of remembering its own position, or will this have to be written to a settings file somewhere?

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

I feel a bit silly now :P

Yeah, that's exactly the case. It's interesting to note that after playback finishes, the bar takes on a new appearance as it becomes inactive. I think the problem here is that the action that sets it to inactive when playback finishes just needs to be called during initialisation.

[RaduStoica (radumstoica)]

This is now fixed in the upstream sources:

commit fc9985faa89d1fc70e6a3dfcf47a3833e3a8d480
Author: Jonathan Matthew <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Oct 26 07:32:49 2012 +1000

    header: make slider insensitive when not playing

I'm going to change the status to Fix Commited.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi Radu, thanks a lot for following this up. Is there an upstream bug report we can link to here?

[RaduStoica (radumstoica)]

Hello,

  I don't have an upstream bug report. I just downloaded the latest rhythmbox code yesterday and, when looking through the list of papercuts, I noticed this one was fixed. It would be good actually if someone else will also confirm this.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

That's fair enough. It's not essential in this case.