The Album View should display song numbers
Submitted by Dimitrios Christidis
Link to original bug (#788445)
Description
GNOME Music does not display song (track) numbers in the Album View, but it does in the Artists View.
On IRC, Marinus Schraal informed me that this was a design decision and Jakub Steiner kindly provided some reasoning behind it: numbers are mandatory in the Artists View because the layout uses two columns. Thus, the sequence (i.e top to bottom, left to right) can be misinterpreted. The Album View uses a single column, so song numbers are not as important.
However, I took notice because it creates an unexpected form of asymmetry in the interface. The Artists View shows more information about an album than the Album View. I’m not sure how useful it is to know the index of a specific song or the total number of songs, but if a user does need this information, it is unusual to have to go to the Artists View.
Personally, it would be acceptable if this was closed as NOTABUG. I just wanted to make sure that it was a deliberate design decision and not something overlooked that can be improved.