peter.backlund@home.se (Peter Backlund) writes:
I looked at rhythmbox and it is catastrophic for simple music listening... a huge window which requires at least the half of my screen width (the minimal window size seems to be 670x293). No way to turn off the window title, no 'pause' control, no control to influence the position within the song, a volume control where 3 small curves show the volume... As said... a typical Gnome2 application which tries to follow blindly a UI guideline without taking care about ergonomic.
http://petrix.se/fedora/rb.png
It has a pause button, it has a slider for controlling position in the songs, and the size of the window is 350x85.
Pause and the slider do not appear until you play a song, which is in line with the UI guidelines.
Oh... I never brought rhythmbox to play a sound -- it segfaulted shortly before (probably related with the gconf error-messages and the failed %post scriptlet).
But: UI guidelines which allow that a start-button becomes a stop-button are crap (probably copied from M$ Windoze). I do not want to count how often I pressed 'stop': there should be silence regardless if I pressed 1, 23 or 42 times the 'stop' button.
Enrico