Feature request: button for adding files and folders

[rhz]

I would be nice to have a button to add files and folders (perhaps to the left of the stop button).

When I want to add a file to the playlist, sometimes I'm distracted and press "open file" instead of "add file" in the file menu, which removes everything else from the playlist. By having a button, I'd not need to go to the file menu, where the dangerous "open file" is. If I want to remove a song or a set of songs from the playlist, I can do it with the delete key.

Thank you for the nice program, it's been my favourite music player for a while now.

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

It is possible to customize the UI, and add a button on your own. Enter design mode, right click on the button bar, change the number of items in it. Then right click on the new slot, and add a button. Then right click on the button, and assign the add files/folders action to it.

You probably want to backup your config file (~/.config/deadbeef/config) in case you mess it up by accident.

[rhz]

Thanks! That's cool.

I'm not sure how to change the number of items in the button bar. When right-clicking on the button bar, the only options I get are "replace with...", "delete", "cut", "copy", "paste", "expand", and "fill".

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

ok.. I was a little wrong.. been a while since I did that last time.

You can't modify the playbox, but you can still make a button..

You can replace the seekbar with HBox, make HBox contain 2 items, and uncheck the "Homogeneous" checkbox.

Then insert a button on the left, and re-insert seekbar on the right.

Then uncheck expand/fill checkboxes on the button.

[rhz]

Right. I replaced the playback controls with an hbox instead and followed your instructions. It works but unfortunately there's a lot of empty space now after the playback controls and before the seekbar. I unchecked the homogeneous checkbox and tried will all possible combinations of fill and expand for the hbox, button and playback controls.

I also tried editing in designer mode the file menu to remove the "open file" entry but it's not possible.

[rhz]

@Alexey-Yakovenko do you know if there's any way to get rid of the big empty space to the right of the hbox in designer mode? I've not been able to do it.