Allow switching icons to text & icon + text

[andylundqvist]

I have a VERY hard time understanding what the icons in the top middle row (Genres, Playlists, Artists etc) mean and I find that I have to click a bunch of them each time I look for something. Am I the only one with this problem?

Would it be possible to add a setting to allow for Icon OR Icon + Text OR Text for these sections?

[dweymouth]

I'm not sure there's enough room to add text for those buttons. One possible solution would be to have an option for showing a navigation sidebar on the left hand side instead of the icons in the top row, where there'd be enough room for text + icon for each. Though I think the best solution could be adding tool tips to the buttons (#116), which unfortunately is currently blocked by fyne-io/fyne#1650 as the UI toolkit does not yet support tool tips. It's possible I could hack a custom solution or build tool tip support into my fork, though it could be difficult to maintain.

[andylundqvist]

Yes, a tooltip hack would only be a halfway solution anyway. Actually it's just as fast (or faster because of a tooltip delay) just to click each section to see what it is. I can see the dilemma. A sidebar solution would maybe be nice. I personally like how Feishins sidebar in the minimized view (with just a large icon + a small description text) below it looks. It saves a lot of screen space over a full text sidebar. Maybe something like that could work?

Thanks for the reply and thanks for a great program!

[dweymouth]

Worth noting that in the next release, the button icon for the current view will be highlighted (#218), so maybe that could help subconsciously building the association between the button and page. I'll have to think about a sidebar option and how it could be made to fit well with the rest of the UI design (I think using the background colors alone to visually separate the main content from the sidebars wouldn't work well in that case), but it could be an option in future releases.

[andylundqvist]

Oh yes, highlighting could definitely help. (Also maybe it's just me with this problem, but highlighting is generally a good UI thing.)