Drag-drop column ordering

[Matti Lindell]

It would be nice if visible columns could be re-ordered
by drag&drop style

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. That's known upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119406

[Frijolie (frijolie)]

This would be a great feature! Please add in a future release...

[komputes (komputes)]

@Frijolie & Matti: GNOME has not worked on this bug in 3 years. I recommend using Songbird, it is much better jukebox software.

[Frijolie (frijolie)]

Yeah, I noticed that from the last date (3/30/06)! Whoa, talk about dragging their feet! Well either that or this request is low on the totem pole! I tried Songbird, I believe in the Alpha stage, and didn't like it. It may be time for a revisit. I also was using Rhythmbox for music synchin' to an iPod but those features are lacking as well...it may be time to move on. Thanks

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

It's been a while since there was any activity on this issue, either here or upstream. Does anyone know how easy this would be to implement? Does the Gtk interface on the front of Rhythmbox easily allow this, or is it going to be a rather involved task?

Does anyone have any ideas?

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

I would consider this the holy grail of Rhtyhmbox paper cuts, perhaps even Rhythmbox bugs in general. We should really look at getting this fixed in the Raring cycle. I'm going to send this to the upstream devs and see how easy it would be to actually fix.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Comment from the developer:

"The basic idea is pretty simple. The track list GtkTreeView will emit
the columns-changed signal when the user reorders columns, at which
point you could extract the column order and write it to GSettings.
After constructing the track list (possibly in
rb_source_bind_settings), you could rearrange the columns using
gtk_tree_view_move_column_after to match the settings. When the value
in GSettings changes, repeat that process.

Making it behave sanely is another matter. If you only have one
setting for column order that applies to all sources (which makes
sense since the settings for column visibility apply to all sources),
it needs to deal with sources that have different sets of columns. I
haven't thought too much about how this would work."

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

I've done some out-of-tree work here via my plugin alternative-toolbar.

If anybody is interested then install via git on my project - https://github.com/fossfreedom/alternative-toolbar

Hopefully those that have sufficient interest will rework this as a proper C patch for rhythmbox itself.

cheers

[OzzyFrank (ubuntu-ozzyfrank)]

16 years later and *still* no movement on this? Still an issue with Rhythmbox 3.4.4 in Ubuntu 22.04. I wouldn't even be worried if Genre *wasn't* stuck between Artist and Album, which was a strange choice. I did install Alternative Toolbar, and that allowed me to drag and drop in the order I liked, but it removed the status bar, which is too useful to be without, as it shows the total duration.

[OzzyFrank (ubuntu-ozzyfrank)]

^ Correction: Rhythmbox places Genre after Title, and before Artist, which is even worse.