[Android] Add option to control audio title alignment

Edward Wang edward.c.wang at compdigitec.com
Wed Aug 13 14:35:35 CEST 2014


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> On 12 Aug, Edward Wang wrote :
>> On 2014-08-12 23:32, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
>> >Adding options to solve usability issues is a bad idea.
>>
>> Would you prefer to remove the marquee altogether?
>>
>> Although then he would complain that the beginnings of all his titles look
>> the same, and he would still have the same problem.
>
> Which is why people usually elide in the middle.
>
> But we could do something more clever, with an animation that is slower,
> that pauses long enough at the end and the beggining, and restarts. It
> also becomes elided in the middle when people click on it...

I think that would be even more complicated than an option, tbh.

As for the ellipsize-on-click, clicking on the title would launch
playback of the song, and we don't want to double-tap to start a song.

Regards,
Edward


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