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Free Media Player for Windows, Linux and Mac OS with YouTube support.
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Missing help menu items for some interface modes #944

Open mrandreastoth opened 6 months ago

mrandreastoth commented 6 months ago

According to the SMPlayer website, SMPlayer's settings can be located as per the following...

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The problem with this is is that the instructions are only true for some very specific interface mode combinations, which exactly I have not been able to figure out, but I know the complete menu was available for the default installation, but thereafter I played around with the interface settings and most of the menu items disappeared leaving me with only the following...

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Note that this is applicable to both Windows and Linux.

Expected Behaviour All the help menu items are available no matter what interface mode is active.

smplayer-dev commented 6 months ago

Some menu options are hidden when using the tablet mode (menu Options) so that the menus take less space.

mrandreastoth commented 6 months ago

I suggest the table mode setting displays a note field to highlight the differences between normal mode and tablet mode including that some menu items will be removed and why this happens. This makes for a must better UX and removes the likelihood of support tickets such as this. Note also that the FAQ needs to highlight this difference as well, not just as an FAQ item but also for any FAQ items that are affected the descriptions stated, such as in the one I included above.