GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 724228
Remove 'now playing' from the app menu
Last modified: 2014-02-25 10:56:57 UTC
Maybe a case of an unimplemented feature/placeholder, but "now playing" in the app menu doesn't take me anywhere. While it may have been an initial design, app menu should not be used for often performed actions. I think getting to the context of a currently playing song is quite an often performed action (giving up on quest to find a song and wanting to go back to the currently playing context). The album art in the playback toolbar is a perfect location for this action, despite having low initial discoverability. We need to do a better job communicating what kind of songset is being played in the playback toolbar, but that's perhaps a different issue. Clicking on the album art/songname in the playback toolbar should take me to the view that initiated playback, so that I get the original context.
Filed bug #724229 for the playback buffer indication.
Created attachment 269987 [details] [review] Removes now playing from app menu I have just commented out the UI element and the action listener to get rid of the now playing in the app-menu. It can be re-added by just uncommenting them. Files affected: application.py data/app-menu.ui
Review of attachment 269987 [details] [review]: We don't need extra comments in out code if we have git revert. Also, this change in INSTALL is completely unnecessary
Created attachment 270171 [details] [review] Removes 'now playing' from app-menu Removed the code this time. No comments. The INSTALL file change happened automatically after the make.
Pushed as https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-music/commit/?id=9f570ab