Re: columns + firefox

[Jean-Yves Lefort]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:16:45 -0700
jeff <address@hidden> wrote:

> The streamtuner default columns are a bit cluttered, especially 
> to new users who don't know how to slide the column width. I 
> see two issues:
> 1) There are too many default columns enabled
> 2) The column widths are too narrow
>
> Attached is a small patch for #1. It turns off How many 
> Listeners and Max Listeners, and Genre. Genre is turned off 
> because that's basically what you are selecting in the left 
> hand side and description/now-playing are a better indicator. 
> Also "broadcaster" is turned off for one plugin as it just 
> takes space and doesn't convey much.

Agreed. I will disable some columns in 1.0.

> I don't know how to fix the column widths. It defaults to making 
> "Now Playing" etc really small and the bitrate really big. 
> Anyway could this be make a bit easier out-of-the-box?

This problem bothers me too, and it should be fixed for 1.0.

I will think about a solution, such as adding a "column width advice"
property to STHandlerField, or playing with
gtk_tree_view_columns_autosize().

> Also, I think firefox should be the default web browser instead 
> of the rarer epiphany, but that's just MHO... Attached is a 
> patchlet for that too.

Popularity does not matter, Epiphany is the default GNOME web browser
(and an excellent program as well).

> On another note I've seen some errors when getting the xiph 
> lists on fresh installs:
> streamtuner: Xiph: XML document: unrecoverable error: internal 
> error
> streamtuner: Xiph: XML document: unrecoverable error: Extra 
> content at the end of the document
> 
> I don't know if it was a transient error or not, but I could 
> reproduce it a number of times tonight by deleting 
> ~/.streamtuner

I can reproduce the issue. If it isn't transient, I will fix it.

> Thanks for such a cool program. Many BLAG users say it's their 
> favorite killer-app. :)

Thanks for your support. :)

Jean-Yves Lefort

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Jean-Yves Lefort

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