Truncate long track titles in CoverPanel?

vredesbyrd commented

2019-12-09 04:36:06 +01:00

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Hi, thank you for sharing this awesome mpd frontend. I made a pseudo-gui with rofi for quickly querying my music database and creating playlists, but occasionally find myself missing the ability to browse by album art. I stumbled on mcg and its exactly the type of tool I had in mind, and then some :)

I use mcg tiled half screen, and often enough tracks / albums with long titles will cause this:

Perhaps a solution would be truncating and adding an ellipsis to track titles > x chars? I tried implementing a hackish solution myself, but did not get very far.

Thanks for your time.

Hi, thank you for sharing this awesome mpd frontend. I made a pseudo-gui with rofi for quickly querying my music database and creating playlists, but occasionally find myself missing the ability to browse by album art. I stumbled on mcg and its exactly the type of tool I had in mind, and then some :) I use mcg tiled half screen, and often enough tracks / albums with long titles will cause this: ![Screenshot_from_2019-12-08_21-15-34](/uploads/b84381051ed0927a0f73f1ea81b6f2d1/Screenshot_from_2019-12-08_21-15-34.png) Perhaps a solution would be truncating and adding an ellipsis to track titles `> x` chars? I tried implementing a hackish solution myself, but did not get very far. Thanks for your time.

coderkun commented

2020-03-21 22:49:28 +01:00

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changed milestone to %10

coderkun commented

2020-03-21 23:31:36 +01:00

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mentioned in commit afc3c4a03f7e0ff4521da1e5a6b324bae646f694

coderkun commented

2020-03-21 23:34:43 +01:00

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Hi @vredesbyrd, thanks for creating this issue. Instead of an ellipsis I configured a max width of 50 % for the scrolled window in the sidebar. If track names are longer, a horizonal scrollbar will appear. This way not only the described issue is handled but it will still be possible to read the full track name.

Would you mind checking out the feature branch and testing this change?

Hi @vredesbyrd, thanks for creating this issue. Instead of an ellipsis I configured a max width of 50 % for the scrolled window in the sidebar. If track names are longer, a horizonal scrollbar will appear. This way not only the described issue is handled but it will still be possible to read the full track name. Would you mind checking out the feature branch and testing this change?

coderkun commented

2020-03-21 23:38:12 +01:00

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assigned to @coderkun

vredesbyrd commented

2020-03-22 02:22:56 +01:00

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Would you mind checking out the feature branch and testing this change?

Just installed the relevant branch and it looks great! I like your solution a lot, elegant way to preserve the full track name :) Thanks much for the fix. I've been listening to a lot a music this last week and will probably continue to for the foreseeable future, if I run into any issues ill report back.

Thanks again.

> Would you mind checking out the feature branch and testing this change? Just installed the relevant branch and it looks great! I like your solution a lot, elegant way to preserve the full track name :) Thanks much for the fix. I've been listening to a lot a music this last week and will probably continue to for the foreseeable future, if I run into any issues ill report back. Thanks again. ![Screenshot_from_2020-03-21_20-09-32](/uploads/5b2bb29c29cf70799e558ccefe02504a/Screenshot_from_2020-03-21_20-09-32.png)

coderkun commented

2020-03-22 11:11:14 +01:00

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closed via commit 14d56452b6

closed via commit 14d56452b613f2fc7bd2ab4e180567733aa095fa

coderkun commented

2020-03-22 11:19:36 +01:00

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mentioned in commit 14d56452b6

mentioned in commit 14d56452b613f2fc7bd2ab4e180567733aa095fa

Truncate long track titles in CoverPanel? #64