• remain
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Topic: 2 ideas for Repeat toolbar button

1)

Right now, pressing the Repeat button will cycle through these modes:

-> Repeat None -> Repeat One -> Repeat Album -> Repeat All ->

My suggestion is that Shift clicking the button will cycle through them in reverse order.


2)

Certain buttons can be both a regular button and a "menu button."

Clicking will have one effect, while clicking and holding (or in Leopard, clicking and dragging "out" of the button) will bring up a menu.

Examples of this are:

-Back/Forward buttons in Safari
click: go Back/Forward
click and hold (or click and drag out): Back/Forward menu

-Home button in Help Viewer
click: go to the home page of that app's help pages
click and hold (or click and drag out): list of all apps' help pages


What I'm suggesting is to have the Repeat button be a button-"menu button."

The menu would obviously be the same as the one at Playlist > Repeat >
although I'd suggest using this order instead

Repeat None
Repeat One
Repeat Album
Repeat All

to be consistent with the order that the Repeat button cycles through the modes.


Thoughts?

  • Zitz
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  • Registered: 2007-07-31
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Re: 2 ideas for Repeat toolbar button

1. There are so few possibilities, that I think it is redundant. An extra click is so little, moving the mouse is the time consumer here... I wouldn't use it, but I wouldn't mind it either.

2. Again, is there really a need for this? Or is it just adding a feature.

ps. I think the order should  be reverse... I mainly (only) use repeat all. And I am so self absorbed, that I assume most people mostly use repeat all.