Clementine: Add button+shortcut to show/hide the side panel

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_From wirespot on November 03, 2010 23:21:01_

After filling the playlist the side panel is usually not needed and often we could use the extra space for the playlist. Please add a button (perhaps down near the cover/title/artist?) and a keyboard shortcut to toggle the panel on/off. A menu entry for this would be nice too.

_Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/issues/detail?id=938_

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_From davidsansome on November 18, 2010 04:49:02_

Labels: Milestone-0.6

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_From davidsansome on November 18, 2010 15:29:40_

Labels: -Type-Defect Type-Enhancement

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_From davidsansome on November 28, 2010 08:03:54_

Labels: -Milestone-0.6

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_From davidsansome on April 25, 2011 05:26:27_

Issue 1804 has been merged into this issue.

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_From davidsansome on August 24, 2011 16:31:26_

Issue 2185 has been merged into this issue.

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_From wewantutopia on March 21, 2013 15:36:05_

I still think this is a big issue. I resized the sidebar all the way to the left and now I can't get it back. A simple show/hide button is a must. Used it all the time in Amarok 1.4 (which I finally uninstalled yesterday).

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_From Andrew.J.Youngs on October 18, 2013 14:28:59_

In the latest stable build of Clementine the side menu can be re-shown by dragging the resize cursor from the left border inwards of the window and this will make it re-appear.

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_From alphadeltapapa on November 28, 2013 17:22:54_

What if clicking the active tab toggled the sidebar? IIRC Amarok 1.4 did that and it worked great.

[lahwran]

The resizing to the left was removed, it'd be cool to have an actual button now.

[notfood]

Please. I don't really need the sidebar. I never noticed this was an issue until I deleted my configuration. Now I can't hide that sidebar.

Is there a way to edit Clementine.conf to hide it?

My best guess is in [MainWindow] splitter_state. Setting it first to all zeroes allowed me to resize it and collapse it. Then it set itself to @ByteArray(\0\0\0\xff\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\x2\0\0\0\0\0\0\a}\x1\0\0\0\x3\x1\0\0\0\x1).

Fixed my issue. But shouldn't you have an option?

[guekho64]

Thanks @notfood!

I spent a whole day searching for a way to hide the sidebar, and you had the answer all this time!

Unfortunately I found this after 4 or 5 hours of searching, xD, but at least you did it

Please add a button to do this, because It can be annoying sometimes, because I don't really need it, and maybe other people think the same about the sidebar. Just add a button, no need to remove it

Using Clementine 1.2.3-1308-g5257922, Lubuntu 14.04.3

[divisionbyzeroerror]

@notfood that .conf fix is BRILLIANT! I second, or third, or fourth the notion that the sidebar and tabbar should be hideable from the User Interface -> Appearance preferences section. In addition to these, I would also love to be able to hide the search box above the playlist and the playlist buttons next to the search box. I never use these either. Having options in the GUI to do these things would make Clem a lot more powerful!

[vascomartins]

Hi to all,

I'm trying to find a solution for this issue, can anyone explain me how to do it for MAC please.

Thank you all in advance
Vasco

[guekho64]

I'm not an Apple expert, but in theory, MAC & Linux share a lot of features inherited from the past of both, so, there should be a ".config" folder in user's home directory too, where Clementine creates a folder to store its data.

"Clementine.conf" it's the file you're searching for to edit (Obviously you'll need a Text Editor, like gedit for Ubuntu). Hitting "Ctrl+F" in many text editors should allow you to "Find" text. Just search for "@bytearray" and it'll find it for you.

Replace whole line with @notfood 's, save, and you're done (Don't forget to close Clementine BEFORE editing this line, or changes probably won't be written)

PD: Talking about different operating systems...where does clementine save its data (And config file) in WINDOWS?

[ghost]

I am amazed that the sidebar - which looks bad on my (hiDPI, Linux) system anyway (see image below) - cannot be hidden without putting something arcane into the .conf file. This is a basic usability/user choice matter.

Also, the instructions provided above could be clearer. Let me try to improve upon them. To hide the sidebar, do the following.

1. Ensure Clementine is not running.
2. Locate the Clementine.conf file (which on my Linux system was in ~/.config/Clementine/Clementine.conf) and open it in a text editor.
3. Find in that file section starting [MainWindow] and therein the line in that section that starts splitter_state=@ByteArray and replace that whole line with this: splitter_state=@ByteArray(\0\0\0\xff\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\x2\0\0\0\0\0\0\a}\x1\0\0\0\x3\x1\0\0\0\x1).
4. Restart Clementine.