crvigh/alternative-toolbar

Modern, minimal and music-focused interface for Rhythmbox

alternative-toolbar	Version	Support
Replace the Rhythmbox large toolbar with a Client-Side Decorated or Compact toolbar which can be hidden.	v0.19.3
	Email	fossfreedom@ubuntu.com
	Website	https://github.com/fossfreedom

Replace the current standard toolbar:

with either a compact toolbar:

or with the new Gnome-style client-side decoration:

Features

• Option to prefer dark-themes
• Standard Menu for the compact toolbar
• Display Browse Categories horizontally or vertically
• Move columns via Drag-and-Drop using a views' column headers
• Toggle compact or standard toolbar on or off
• Volume Control can be switched on or off for all toolbars
• Source Toolbars can be toggled (CTRL + T)
• Seek forward (fast-forward) through a track (ALT + Right Arrow)
• Seek backward through a track (ALT + Left Arrow)
• Redesigned sidebar
• Redesigned plugin window, about box and plugin preferences window
• Repeat button can now switch between repeat tracks and repeat-one-song mode
• Force display of the app-menu (compact/headerbar) gsettings set org.gnome.rhythmbox.plugins.alternative_toolbar app-menu-display true
• Plugin translated into 47 languages and locales

The plugin preferences allows you to define which toolbars are used:

Keyboard shortcuts

Key	Action
CTRL + T	Toggled source toolbar.
CTRL + F	Toggle search bar
CTRL + P	Start/Stop current track.
CTRL + R	Open repeat menu.
CTRL + K	Toggle play queue.
CTRL + A/?	Select all songs in playlist.
ALT + Right Arrow	Seek forward (fast-forward) through a track.
ALT + Left Arrrow	Seek backward through a track.

After installation enable the plugin in the plugins window:

If you need to enable the player controls & source menu, this can be done from the menu:

• Menu ->
  • View ->
    • Show Play-Controls Toolbar
    • Show Source and Media Toolbars

Installation

Latest Stable Release via source code compilation

Navigate to the archive and grab the newest .tar.gz from https://github.com/fossfreedom/alternative-toolbar/releases

cd ~/Downloads
sudo apt-get install intltool git gir1.2-glib-2.0 gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-peas-1.0 gir1.2-rb-3.0 gnome-pkg-tools gobject-introspection libglib2.0-dev pkg-config python3-gi python3
tar -zxvf alternative-toolbar*.tar.gz
cd alternative-toolbar*
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

This will install a system-wide installation. If you have a previous locally installed version of the plugin, remove it:

rm -rf ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins/alternative-toolbar

Latest Development Release via Git

cd ~/Downloads
sudo apt-get install intltool git gir1.2-glib-2.0 gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-peas-1.0 gir1.2-rb-3.0 gnome-pkg-tools gobject-introspection libglib2.0-dev pkg-config python3-gi python3
git clone https://github.com/fossfreedom/alternative-toolbar.git
cd alternative-toolbar
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

This will install a system-wide installation. If you have a previous locally installed version of the plugin, remove it:

rm -rf ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins/alternative-toolbar

Ubuntu PPA - latest stable release

If you are using Ubuntu you can install alternative-toolbar via a PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom/rhythmbox-plugins
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-alternative-toolbar

Arch AUR - latest development release

If you are using Arch you can install alternative-toolbar via the rhythmbox-plugin-alternative-toolbar-git package.

Gentoo ebuild

If you are using Gentoo you can install alternative-toolbar by adding the ebuild located in the gentoo branch gentoo/x11-plugins/alternative-toolbar to your local overlay (/usr/local/portage), i.e.

git clone https://github.com/fossfreedom/alternative-toolbar -b gentoo
add the ebuild
git checkout master

Use the following to ebuild

ebuild alternative-toolbar-9999.ebuild digest
emerge alternative-toolbar

Fedora Install

Navigate to the archive and grab the newest .tar.gz from https://github.com/fossfreedom/alternative-toolbar/releases

cd ~/Downloads
sudo dnf install intltool git gnome-pkg-tools gobject-introspection glib2-devel pkg-config python3-gobject python3
tar -zxvf alternative-toolbar*.tar.gz
cd alternative-toolbar*
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

This will install a system-wide installation. If you have a previous locally installed version of the plugin, remove it:

rm -rf ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins/alternative-toolbar

Uninstallation

If installed via Git you need the original code to uninstall the plugin.

cd ~/Downloads/alternative-toolbar*
sudo make uninstall

Contribute

Please help out with translating

We need you to help us translate the english text to your native language.

Don't worry - it is easier that you think. Just visit:

• https://translations.launchpad.net/alternative-toolbar

Remember to set your preferred language and then just submit your translation.

Credits

Thank you to:

• me4oslav - design inspiration for the header-bar vision
• our Translators: Launchpad Translation team
• Julian Richen - revamped README
• Ikey Doherty - AutoTools installer
• McSinyx - Better repeat song code - #127 and slider - #128

As well as:

• sergioad - for the initial translation (spanish) used for testing translations
• Thanks to the rhythmbox-seek project for the track-seeking code.
• Thanks to the repeat-one-song project for the repeat-one-song code
• gipawu - improved progress slider code