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0016073MMW 5Main Panel: Toolbars & Menuspublic2019-11-15 18:46
Reporterrusty Assigned To 
PriorityurgentSeveritytweakReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionreopened 
Product Version5.0 
Target Version5.0Fixed in Version5.0 
Summary0016073: Not always clear how to configure MM5 views/layout
DescriptionThere are a couple of issues with the View menu atm:
- Some users expect to find the Main Panel view configuration items here
- There are several entries for UI elements (e.g. Media Tree, Player, Playing, Preview) that duplicate & conflict with functionality already in the layout view (Right Panel, Left Panel, etc.), e.g. if the Bottom Panel isn't enabled and the user enables the Player --> nothing happens.

To resolve we can make the following changes:
1)
View menu:
+ New Tab
---------------
[x] Left panel
[x] Right panel
[x] Bottom panel (a) **new: any active panel should appear here)
[*] Layout
---------------
[x] Media Tree (b)**Remove*)
[x] Player (**Remove*)
[x] Playing (**Remove*)
[x] Preview (**Remove*)
[ ] Visualization
[x] Menu bar
---------------
Skin >
Mode >
[x] Party mode
----------------
Find more from Same (c)**move to the Edit menu's Search section)
Main panel view > (d)**new: this replica of the main panel view configurator can appear here)
----------------
-- Refresh


This would result in the following view menu:

+ New Tab
---------------
[x] Left panel
[x] Right panel
[x] Bottom panel
[x] Menu bar
.*. Layout
---------------
[ ] Visualization
[ ] Party mode
Mode >
Skin >
----------------
Main panel view >
----------------
-- Refresh


In addition, a couple of tweaks to the Options > Layout config for consistency & a couple of other tweaks:
2) Rename: Tracklist panel --> Main panel (since it can now contain items other than the tracklist)

3) The Main panel should be force-enabled (since afaik it's always active)

4) Change the order of the panels from the layout below so that there's more logic to it:
Top panel . . Left panel
Right panel . Tracklist panel
Bottom panel

To either of the following-->

Top panel. . . Left panel
Main panel . . Right panel
Bottom panel

OR

Left panel . . Right panel
Top panel . . Main panel
Bottom panel

OR layout the config in an approximation of the actual layout:

Top panel
Left panel . Main panel . Right panel
Bottom panel
TagsNo tags attached.
Fixed in build2212

Activities

petr

2019-10-30 12:45

developer   ~0055144

Fixed

rusty

2019-11-05 14:48

administrator   ~0055204

Tested 2210 and verified all but item 3). i.e. the 'Main panel' isn't force-enabled (in the Layout panel). Shouldn't it be (i.e. afaik there's no situation in which it can not appear)?

petr

2019-11-06 07:27

developer   ~0055229

Fixed

rusty

2019-11-15 18:46

administrator   ~0055368

Verified 2212.