GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 635892
Shuffle drop down menu can be confusing and is undiscoverable
Last modified: 2020-03-17 09:01:06 UTC
the next menu button with shuffle options can be hard to discover, and has lead to people (at least one) thinking Banshee didn't have shuffle. This moves shuffle and repeat to the bottom left hand corner as cute little buttons.
Created attachment 175333 [details] [review] Move shuffle and repeat to bottom of interface
I already mentioned it in your blog post, but why not having it in both places?
No, that's just poor design. We're trying to declutter and simplify.
I feel that this is a good move, so long a both have text displayed on the button (since there is more horizontal space on the bottom, so icon-only is unnecessary). > why not having it in both places? There is no reason to have a duplicated functionality, is there? Off topic: If you are trying to simplify, why not put the seek-slider under the track info in the one adjustable section, vertically split, rather than horizontally. That would save horizontal space, and allow for longer sliders, if desired. So if this patch also puts the text of the current selection on the selector-dropdown-button, as well as the icon, then I personally approve of this patch, though it may take some getting used to for past users.
(In reply to comment #4) > > why not having it in both places? > There is no reason to have a duplicated functionality, is there? Well, normally in software the features are duplicated in the UI, for example you select an item, and you normally have three options to delete it: the "Delete" key, the Edit->Delete menu, or the context menu.
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > > > why not having it in both places? > > There is no reason to have a duplicated functionality, is there? > > Well, normally in software the features are duplicated in the UI, for example > you select an item, and you normally have three options to delete it: the > "Delete" key, the Edit->Delete menu, or the context menu. That's a Menu item, a keyboard shortcut, and a context-menu item. There may also be a toolbar button (although for delete it's a bit pointless). But only one of each. One button. One menu item. One context-menu item. One button (if the function is worth cluttering the toolbars). There's no need for more than one of each.
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.