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after fiddling for quite a while with this it seems that

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Window = hidden=SongTree|FPane3 saves the "hidden"-state of the songtree and fpane widget to gmbrc and is not really just a default first-time option.

right now my layout/icon theme is still work in progress(screenshot attached), but as soon as i get anywhere, i'll post it.

one more question: i kinda remember that a new scan/check widget was introduced somewhere in 1.1.x, but i can't find a corresponding commit in git (and obviously the doc is too outdated for that) and that it was possible to integrate it -> then there'd be no popup. if i remember correctly, how does that work again? (i'd like to put it in the statusbar at the bottom of my layout)


btw i'm happy if anyone has suggestions on how to improve this layout. one minor (purely cosmetic) thing that i'd like to do is make the togglebuttons for list/songtree/mosaic view look like the ones in this mockup: http://elementary-project.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/elementary_Nautilus_by_DanRabbit.png
i assume that'd work with creating a gtkrc for gmb using the pixbuf engine to draw the three buttons. if some gtk-wizards are around and willing to help out with this that'd be great.

i thought about creating new layouts for gmb again today and i have to say i would love to see a standard layout where i can easily switch between different sub-layouts (something like: list view, mosaic view, songtree-view).
i know that it's generally possible to have all that in different tabs, but a more "integrated" experience would be nice. something like three toggle-icons for the different views. of course i'm aware of the fact that this is nothing new in musicplayerland (e.g. itunes: coverflow, list-view etc.), but for me that's rather a pro than a con.

another thing: something like a scale-bar (or a plus-minus button for zooming) for the mosaic-size would be nice. right now too many useful settings are hidden in right-click menus. i personally don't have much problem with that because i got used to it, but with new users and less-techy-people it might be different.

i have worked on gmb-layouts before and generally i'm happy with what the one i'm using can do, but i guess this is a bit over my head.
just thought i'd add my 2 cents to making a nice standard-gmb theme.

hm, to be honest i'm not sure whether this way of rating is a big improvement. in a way you can already look at songs that way by sorting them by play count / skip count... sometimes i guess i'd like to rate a song very high even though i've only heard it once. maybe a combination of play count plus manual override for the rating?

i guess per-widget would be nicer, simply because it's more flexible. (or maybe even both is possible? like a general on/off switch and then the option to enable disable the functionality widget-wise.)

i agree that the default pic is often ugly, but that doesn't sound like something we couldn't fix :)

cd-case sounds good btw, drop shadow or reflection would also be nice.

hey there,
i realized that many other players out there display something like an empty cd-case when no album-cover is available.
basically implementing this would be my suggestion for gmusicbrowser.
(on the other hand this feature would come with some drawbacks/problems like the missing album-name in mosaic mode which would make it hard/impossible to identify an album without clicking/hovering. maybe there's a way to have both - empty cd-case with albumtitle on it?)

so what do you guys think - useless bloat or nice eyecandy?

here's a layout i created (well, more or less i modified queue-library-context) and have been using for quite a while.
(screenshot attached)

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Type=G
Default      = Window fullscreen=1 FPane0 page=artist FPane1 page=album,albumpsize=64, artistpsize=64,albuminfo=1 QueueList cols=13_25_3_21_22
MBmenu      = MainMenuItem PSortItem PFilterItem QueueItem
HBmenu      = _MBmenu -SimpleSearch
HBButtons   = Prev Play Next -5Pos -5Queue -5Filter -5Sort
HBTime      = LabelTime Length _Scale
HBTitle      = Filler0 _Title
HBArtist   = LockArtist _Artist
HBAlbum      = LockAlbum _Album
VBText      = HBButtons HBTitle HBArtist HBAlbum HBTime
VBplayer   = VBText
VBLeft      = VBplayer 5_QueueList(group=1) Cover HBQueueButtons
HBQueueButtons   = Total
HBSongtree   = _SongTree
HBfp1      = _FPane1(nb=2,hide=1)
VPfp1      = HBfp1 HBSongtree
HPRight      = _FPane0(nb=1,hide=1) VPfp1
HPBottom   = VBLeft _HPRight
VBmain      = HBmenu 5_HPBottom
HSize0      = Filler0 LockArtist LockAlbum
VolumeScroll   = VBplayer
Window = borderwidth=0

well, basically the title says it all.

the only open question seems to me whether to export the albumcovers embedded in the individual mp3s or as single image file in the album folder.

i would prefer the embedded version but i guess that would require gmb to support that method better in general...