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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you asking for a visual metaphor for "Synchronize Devices" ?

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 22:19, Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I was listening to the UDS session remotely a couple of months back and
> I remember the rhythmbox maintainer said that sync support is in the
> next version of rhythmbox. So its in maverick but what I thought is that
> its not at all obvious to get to. You click on the device name then
> there is a blue icon that kinda looks like it means refresh at first
> glance but its sync. The UI for the sync itself is actually very
> understandable just getting to it isnt obvious.
>
> If you look at Banshee or iTunes they have a very similar way of doing
> things here (maybe because banshee copied the UI of iTunes to make it
> easy for new users) . So you can do manual sync in RB as normal or you
> can sync it using that blue button but if I didnt stumble across that
> button when looking at what the RB tooltips say then I wouldnt have
> every known it was there. So can we make some more obvious way of doing
> this either by copying iTunes or doing it some other way? It wouldnt be
> much work to fix this it just needs a good UI suggestion IMO. Thoughts?
>
> --fagan
>
>
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