Genres view can be hard to navigate

Bug #1297175 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Music App
Fix Released
Medium
Victor Thompson

Bug Description

With a large amount of music (and thus possibly a lot of genres) you can get a very wide genre view which can be hard to navigate on desktop and leaves huge blank space below. See screenshot.

Perhaps the recent played and genres should be multiple lines when window is expanded.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :
Changed in music-app:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Victor Thompson (vthompson) wrote :

I think the general pattern of scrolling horizontally by flicking the mouse is less than optimal on a desktop. If horizontal scrollbars are eventually introduced, perhaps the best thing to do, in general, would be to scale the size of the items in this view with the height of the app to avoid needless whitespace. This doesn't alone solve the slight discomfort of flicking left and right with the mouse, however.

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Jono Bacon (jonobacon) wrote :

@Victor the issue here is less about scrolling with a mouse (which is an issue, but will be resolved when scrollbars land soon), but more about the sheer number of genres that can be displayed - over a certain number of genres (e.g. 10) it takes a long time to get to what I want because each genre is displayed as an album thumbnail - I think having three genres stacked where we currently show 1 would resolve this.

David Planella (dpm)
tags: added: bacon-dogfood
David Planella (dpm)
tags: added: needs-design
Changed in music-app:
status: New → Triaged
milestone: none → hackdays-1403
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Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen) wrote :

This whole page will be overhauled in the remix and the view will scroll vertically using more of the space available, so it will likely be fixed then. Therefore targeting the remix as the milestone.

Changed in music-app:
milestone: hackdays-1403 → 2.0
Changed in music-app:
assignee: nobody → Victor Thompson (vthompson)
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in music-app:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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