GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 128108
Allow toggle remaining time
Last modified: 2007-11-07 13:48:41 UTC
It's sometimes interesting to know remaining time on a song, as opposed to elapsed time. This could be done by letting the time display act as a button on mouseover (as the artist and song title do). There could be a tooltip telling what it does. When you click the button, the display changes from "1:30 of 2:45" to "-1:14 [of|to|till] 2:45". Another style could be to have a context menu instead of the mouseover button. With such, there could additionaly be options to let total/elapsed/remaining time reflect the playlist as a whole, instead of one song only.
Most players out there that I've tried support this, heck my stereo even supports this. I actually preffer to view time left than time lapsed.
time elapsed [======= ] -time left That's my preferred way. Colin, let us know, and I'll provide a patch.
Hm. Personally, I like the idea of toggling more. But it's not a really strong preference. Do you know what other music/media players do? I notice totem uses elapsed/total too :)
I'm a bit strapped for space in Totem ;) There's plenty of room in the controls area for Rhythmbox.
bug #419914 has a patch, so closing this one. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 419914 ***