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[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 14:43 +0530, Vishnoo wrote:
> With the indicator applications menu and music player menu, I can skip
> one song at a time.
> 
> However , if i have to skip multiple songs , it is a bit tiring to open
> the menu each time and to skip songs one by one. 
> The only other option to do it faster is to bring up the player window.

There could be a special action:
- auto-repeat on click-holding the skip menu item
- showing a sub menu after a delay on click-hold
- interpreting a drag movement starting from the menu item

Those would have the have-to-know-about it problem again, plus it might
be hard to find other places to apply the same concept (we want to avoid
special cases, right?).

Or specific menu items, but these would be very limited and ugly:
- Skip 1 track
- Skip 2 tracks
...

Or use the last section of the menu or a sub-menu to list the next 10
tracks, where you can select one of them to jump there.

Disclaimer: I currently don't use Rhythmbox or any other player with
panel icon / indicator menu and have no clue how that looks like now.


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