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Bug 407866 - move album art to shell player (ie. the "now playing" area)
move album art to shell player (ie. the "now playing" area)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: rhythmbox
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
HEAD
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: RhythmBox Maintainers
RhythmBox Maintainers
: 537867 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 412853
 
 
Reported: 2007-02-14 14:12 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2008-10-01 20:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
patch (9.35 KB, patch)
2007-02-14 14:14 UTC, William Jon McCann 		none Details | Review
screenshot (180.07 KB, image/png)
2007-02-14 14:15 UTC, William Jon McCann 		  Details
capture with smaller fonts (61.50 KB, image/jpeg)
2007-02-14 19:59 UTC, Christophe Dehais 		  Details
35art-in-now-playing.patch (9.23 KB, patch)
2007-02-28 00:32 UTC, Ed Catmur 		none Details | Review
35art-in-now-playing.patch (8.88 KB, patch)
2007-06-24 20:26 UTC, Ed Catmur 		none Details | Review
35art-in-now-playing.patch (8.84 KB, patch)
2008-03-24 21:12 UTC, Ed Catmur 		none Details | Review

Description William Jon McCann 2007-02-14 14:12:44 UTC 
There have been some requests on the mail list to move the art into the "now playing" area.  I think they have given some good reasons.

 * ability to automatically show in small mode
 * ability to see art when side pane is hidden
 * more logical connection with "now playing" type info
 * solve the problem where you expand the source list to better view an ellipsized source title and the album art expands to a huge size
 * give more room to see playlists and other sources
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2007-02-14 14:14:52 UTC 
Created attachment 82536 [details] [review]
patch

Will probably need to add some way to make the art bigger when clicking on it or something...
Comment 2 William Jon McCann 2007-02-14 14:15:39 UTC 
Created attachment 82537 [details]
screenshot
Comment 3 Christophe Dehais 2007-02-14 19:59:52 UTC 
Created attachment 82559 [details]
capture with smaller fonts

This works fine for me, however, maybe because of different font sizes, the thumbnail seems to not be well sized w.r.t the song information text which then lay in an quite empty space. See the attached screen capture.
Comment 4 Christophe Dehais 2007-02-14 20:05:07 UTC 
Also, it seems that the ratio of the thumbnail is fixed, not respecting the cover image native ratio.
Comment 5 Ed Catmur 2007-02-28 00:27:12 UTC 
I'll try it out.  Shouldn't this depend on bug 342207?

(In reply to comment #1)
> Will probably need to add some way to make the art bigger when clicking on it
> or something...
Bug 384483?

(In reply to comment #4)
> Also, it seems that the ratio of the thumbnail is fixed, not respecting the
> cover image native ratio.
Bug 363694 has a patch which allows the aspect ratio to change by up to 10% in either direction, after which the thumbnail is padded.  Should work here (the patches are incompatible, but not impossible to fix).
Comment 6 Ed Catmur 2007-02-28 00:32:12 UTC 
Created attachment 83508 [details] [review]
35art-in-now-playing.patch

Compatibilified.
Comment 7 Ed Catmur 2007-06-24 20:26:42 UTC 
Created attachment 90581 [details] [review]
35art-in-now-playing.patch

update to 0.11.0
Comment 8 Ed Catmur 2008-03-24 21:12:00 UTC 
Created attachment 107949 [details] [review]
35art-in-now-playing.patch

Update to 0.11.5
Comment 9 Jonathan Matthew 2008-06-11 22:32:47 UTC 
*** Bug 537867 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 William Jon McCann 2008-10-01 20:14:02 UTC 
On second thought... I think we probably want to have a "Now Playing" source that would show the album art, information about the track/album/artist, and related artists etc.