[PROBLEM] Wrong music info format on wide local display

[manolomalele]

Hi all,

I've just downloaded and installed the latest version of moode (Thanks Tim and all the programmers for the remarkable work you're doing!) and I noticed a big improvement in terms of smoothness in my system (pi4 4gb).

However I've experienced a bad behavior on the locally attached hdmi display to the pi:

On coverview the song info (track title, artist, etc) intead of being centered on the empty portion of the screen, on the right side of it, are left formatted in a small font.

Do I miss some setting or is it a bug?

Thanks again for everything.

   

[Tim Curtis]

The layout looks ok (left justified).
What resolution is the display?
I'll check it in the sim and see whats going on with the font size.

[manolomalele]

Hi Tim, the display is 480x1920 and on the previous releases the justification was on the center (in my opinion it is way better and more elegant, don't you think?) as you can see on the picture below.

Thanks a lot for the prompt reply

   

[Tim Curtis]

Hi Tim, the display is 480x1920 and on the previous releases the justification was on the center (in my opinion it is way better and more elegant, don't you think?) as you can see on the picture below.

Thanks a lot for the prompt reply

Centering the song data only looks ok for long text strings. When the artist and title are short it looks disconnected from the cover art.

These ultra wide panels are challenging when there are only a few lines of text to fill 3/4 of the screen. I had a TODO a few years back to create "Web VU meters" which could help fill that space but it never got any attention. Maybe a dev that sees this post will become interested :-)

[manolomalele]

Got it.

But if I can ask you, why on the previous releases the text was centrered?
Do you think that could it be possible to add a switch to change the position left or centered?
I won't be forced to come back to older versions only for that

Ps. Regarding the vu meters, I don't know... I'm a mcintosh user and you can understand how much I love them, but on a such small display everything could become too confused.
My 2 cents ;-)

[Tim Curtis]

Thats how it first started out but then there was the issue I previously mentioned about short text lines looking really bad centered on ultrawides.

[manolomalele]

:-(

So there will not be chances at all to have it again centered?

[manolomalele]

Hi Tim, 


It's me again. I had some troubles installing 9.x but eventually i did it.
I'm so sorry if i bother you with the same question, but don't you think it doesn't look good? 
it's too close to the coverart (and aven overlapped).

Here how's the appearing on a normal wide (pc monitor 16:10) and on the ultrawide (local display).
On a regular 16:10, as you can see, it works well and I agree with your point of wiew.
On an ultrawide, in my opinion, doesn't look simmetric.
As you did before, could you please think about adding another option (ultra wide) on the menu? 
Probably I'm just the only one in the world who cares about that, but I don't want to rollback to 8.x only for this feature.
Surely many others will appreciate it!

Thank you so much! 

left justified on ultrawide 8.x
   

centered on ultrawide 9.x
   

centered on wide 9.x
   

left justified on ultrawide 9.x
   

left justified on wide 9.x
   

[Tim Curtis]

The pic titled "left justified on ultrawide 9.x" is showing what could be a css bug.

Let me know what the viewport is for that screen and I'll see if I can repro in the simulator.

After turning viewport notification on or off, restart Local Display

Code:

# Turn viewport notification on
moodeutl -q "update cfg_system set value='viewport' where param='pkgid_suffix'"

# Turn viewport notification off
moodeutl -q "update cfg_system set value='' where param='pkgid_suffix'"

[manolomalele]

The pic titled "left justified on ultrawide 9.x" is showing what could be a css bug.

Let me know what the viewport is for that screen and I'll see if I can repro in the simulator.

After turning viewport notification on or off, restart Local Display

Code:

# Turn viewport notification on
moodeutl -q "update cfg_system set value='viewport' where param='pkgid_suffix'"

# Turn viewport notification off
moodeutl -q "update cfg_system set value='' where param='pkgid_suffix'"

   

here it is

thanks