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cfangmeier / tuijam

A fancy TUI client for Google Play Music
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Suggesting more universal column spacing for song listings #63

Open rkratky opened 4 years ago

rkratky commented 4 years ago

I found that ui_weights = (2, 1, 1, 0.2, 0.2) provide more universally usable column widths for song lists in the Search and Queue panels.

Song titles tend to be forced to wrap more often with the orig. settings. Artist and album names are usually shorter.

Ideally this would be made configurable.

rkratky commented 4 years ago

I added a second commit/suggestion: to use ui_weights also for album listings.

cfangmeier commented 4 years ago

Sorry it took so long to respond to this. The reasoning for the original weights was actually me listening to the LOTR soundtrack at work which has quite long album titles (eg "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)"). I think as long as there is wrapping, there will be this issue.

I can think of a couple things to try out:

  1. Allow for overriding the ui_weights in the config file.
  2. Truncate overlong fields, and indicate it with ellipses.

Both options have their pros and cons.

rkratky commented 4 years ago

Allow for overriding the ui_weights in the config file. Truncate overlong fields, and indicate it with ellipses.

I think it would be great to allow both of these options: The default would be wrapping with the orig. ui_weights. And then it would be possible to turn on truncating and configure column weights.

Btw., thanks for a great tool. I've been using it exclusively ever since I discovered it a couple of months ago.