Pane Buttons

I just usually don't change left-bottom-pane (album-art, for me) and I guessed other people don't want to, too :-)

You could use a button for that one, too? I implement that, if you want.

Thanks for your feedback, and I thought I was the only one complaining :-D

I hope my add-on is only needed for a short time, this feature is surely something that has to be build in the main application.

@deomega, yeah, stevos new views rock! But do you think buttons for mediaviews would be helpful? Switching through the button in the nav-bar is quite easy & fast, yet.

@deomega: yeah, the list is getting longer :-D And I'm not quite accustomed to the drop-down list, too. (In fact i discovered the existence of this button yesterday :-x ) I'll wait some days, and if I don't get used to it, this would be my next step:

There's lots of space in nav-bar (next to the dropdown-button), I could create buttons for every media-view and put them there. Of course the user should be able to select the buttons to show in an option-pane, otherwise clarity would not be granted.

@deomega: media-views are completely disabled when you are in browser mode, so you won't miss the buttons, then. I have to check out, how hard it is to implement the options. Never done this before.

Thanks! But an autohide-function like you suggested would be much better. But that's too difficult for me to implement... :-/

yeah, no ability to edit comments sucks :-D

the position of the buttons is just because it's the easiest way to put them there. I would put more effort in this add-on, but i'm focused on YABS. And i REALLY think my addon should be just provisionally! Switching these panes HAS to be possible without an extension. And an autohide-extension HAS to be created! :-D

The F11-function implemented in the nightlies is a good start...

So, well, sorry, if don't put much more work into this add-on. I hope you understand... ;-)

Again, i was too late :-p Thanks! I think i go to bugzilla and demand an edit-comments-function ;-)

@stevo, yeah, its funny! I didn't either! But if the controls are hidden, you suddenly see, that you can lots of things without them, and use the space for other things :-)

btw, I'm a very great fan of your add-ons! I wish I had your coding-skills O.O

@awkwardsmile: which feather do you use? anything suspicious in the error-log? could you provide a screenshot? (if i can see your status-bar layout/icons, perhaps that would help, too)

@awkwardsmile: 2 more questions: Does the button to hide servicepane-left(!) work in library/playlist mode? You should see this button at least. And: which songbird version do you use? No nightly, no 0.6, right?

@awkwardsmile: Sorry, I need more info, or I won't be able to solve this problem:

1. Please try to create a new, blank profile with profile-manager. Install only Pane Buttons. Do they show up, then?
2. Does the button to hide servicepane-left(!) work in library/playlist mode? You see this button by default, but it only works in library-mode with Pane Buttons installed.
3. Anything suspicious in the error-log?
4. Which Feather do you use?

Not in my songbird:

Again: I might be able to solve this, if you answer my questions. Otherwise I probably can't.

@awkwardsmile: thanks a lot! I wonder, why do you have two close-buttons in the window-bar in the screenshot with personas? In the new profile you haven't. Might be a sign for a corrupted profile.

Error log seems to be clear (for pane-button problem).

I posted something about this in the dev-group ( http://groups.google.com/group/songbird-dev/browse_thread/thread/434aa82c23349a26 ) and now wait for an answer.

If you would like to do some more testing, you could install all your addons used in the old profile in the new profile, one by one, and watch out, if the pane-buttons stop working at any point. If the buttons keep on working, it is a corrupt profile.

you mean this add-on: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1 ?
I don't get an extra close-button, when i install this, even in a new profile.

mh, i just figured out that you are using this one: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1

This add-on is not compatible with 0.7, like gmail notifier, you are using too. You can't expect to override compatibility without causing problems.

(I do this by myself, sometimes. But if I get an error, the first thing I try is to disable ALL incompatible add-ons. This solves the problems like every time.)

Anyway, i see what i can do...

wrong link above. This is the incompatible addon you are using: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/152

I'm sorry, I found no solution. "System Tray Support" was build for Rubberducky, 5 month ago, not for Gonzo. A lot of things have changed since this. Source-code for some dll and xpt of the add-on is using is missing, too. Track the error down would just take too much effort and time, and I don't know if it is possible at all. SO... you will have to decide, which add-on to use, or get the system tray support - developer to update it to Gonzo. :-/

@GeekShadow: Great news! Thanks for letting me know!

@deomega: Done! (finally ;)

Lol, the condemned live longer. ;-) Thanks for your comments.

@Nazgulled: Thanks for your suggestions!
1.) I'm working on an option-pane, where you can set all the buttons and behaviours of PaneButtons, I will add an option to hide the default media-view button there.
2.) Yeah, that does feel strange... but I guess there is no better place for it. How ever, like in 1.) said, you will be able to remove this button from the Statusbar.
3.) Good idea! I will give try to do that :-)

@JohnM: :-) it's even shown, if they don't have MediaFlow, at the moment :-p I thought about change its functionality to open your download-page, in that case, hihi... But an option pane will be the more clean solution, i guess.

@deomega: Lol, i don't understand, what you problem was, but I'm glad if it's gone. If you have the trouble again, tell me :-)

@stevo: *looking-in-the-air,-whistling*
I hope you don't mind, it saved me some time. I've stolen the complete groupbox xul and parts of the framework of the corresponding .js

@Mark: By default only List & Filters are shown. That is a change to the last version. Another change is, that you can decide, what buttons show up :-) Go to the options, select "Pane Buttons" on the left side, here you can add MediaFlow and all the other buttons again :-)

PS: Look at the 3rd screenshot, if you have difficulties in finding the options.

Hi Steve, i have this problem by myself, even before i installed PaneButtons. I did some testings right now, and I'm sure it is a songbird-bug, not a PaneButtons-Bug. You can find the details of my testings on bugzilla, you can vote for this bug, too:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14274

@Lib53: actually, i rated it 3 stars, because I'm not yet satisfied with it (*putting-on-my- jockstrap,-now* ;-)
Auto-hide is a good idea and easy to do, the problem is the auto-show, that should be added then, too. But I see what I can do!

@deOmega: Yeah, that's a god idea, especially switching TO miniplayer takes two more mouse-actions than needed (no, i guess more lazier would cause death :)
I thought about that some times before, but i read somewhere this button would be re-added in 1.1. or something. But I now think they won't do it.

About the separators for the buttons: I think I don't spend time on this, because customizable tool-bars will come in one of the next Songbirds, and this might change a lot anyway.