GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 171917
Previous moves to the beginning of the song
Last modified: 2008-11-09 11:05:56 UTC
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu When you click on previous during play of a song, instead of starting to play the previous song, rhythmbox goes back to the start of the song currently played. It's very confusing because if you really want to move to the previous song you have to go to the context menu twice to press the previous menu item. And in that process, it only works during the first few seconds of the song. Maybe you should add a better context menu to the system tray.
Created attachment 52053 [details] [review] patch In CVS (and possibly 0.9.0) the "Previous" button always goes to the previous song and never seeks back to the start - but for some reason using other methods (menu item, keyboard shortcut, or tray icon) doesn't do that. The attached patch changes it so that it doesn't seek back to the start with any method.
Can confirm this bug is still valid for 0.9.3.1 from pre-release dapper. The behaviour of the "previous" toolbar button and the shortcut "Alt+Left" is not consistent.
Created attachment 59305 [details] [review] updated patch Patch to make the previous button in the UI act the same as everything else.
Plese don't remove this feature. I see and use the Previous and Forward as "jump to begining" and "jump to end" rather than previous and next. And I think many do the same. When you look at them as jumps it makes sense.
Totem, hardware CD players, and many playback devices (like the iPod) will go back to the beginning of the song when pressing the back button |< and not in the first few seconds of the song. I think it makes a lot of sense for Rhythmbox to act the same.
Created attachment 60267 [details] SVG mock up. This mock up have been discused in this thread http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2006-February/msg00166.html
Comment on attachment 60267 [details] SVG mock up. UI suggestion if the Previous button action is changed.
Created attachment 60268 [details] SVG mock up with search bar UI suggestion if the Previous button action is changed. This mock up have been discused in this thread http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2006-February/msg00166.html
Created attachment 60269 [details] SVG mock up with Source to the right UI suggestion if the Previous button action is changed. This mock up have been discused in this thread http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2006-February/msg00166.html
Created attachment 60270 [details] SVG mock up with Source to the right and search bar UI suggestion if the Previous button action is changed. This mock up have been discused in this thread http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2006-February/msg00166.html
Created attachment 60672 [details] Symbol description I just found out that the symbols on the buttons have meanings. This is screenshot from The Comprehensive Latex Symbol List (pdf page 58) taken from this link http://www.math.ntnu.no/~berland/latex/docs/symbols-a4.pdf
*** Bug 172226 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Everything is consistent now (since bug 521329) and I agree with comment 5 that the behaviour makes sense.