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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0020103 | MMW 5 | Skins | public | 2023-06-21 14:38 | 2023-12-21 13:20 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | assigned | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 5.1 | ||||
| Target Version | 5.0 | ||||
| Summary | 0020103: Users can think that switching visualizations enables them, but it doesn't | ||||
| Description | The current design for switching visualizations via View > Visualizations can lead users to believe that they've enabled visualization when they select a skin, but the two settings are currently independent. Possible approaches to fixing this: 1) Selecting a skin automatically enables visualization. This solves the current problem, but introduces another one (since some users won't expect visualization to be enabled by selecting a skin) 2) Eliminate the checkbox next to Visualization, and make it work similarly to how View > Skins works e.g. Visualization > [ ] Bars [ ] Line fade [ ] Oscillator [ ] Milkdrop [configure] .... This solves the current problem without only a minor downside: the user must take an extra step to enable/disable visualization (but this is pretty minor since most users will enabled it via the preview window). 3) Use the following approach [ ] Visualization [configure] This solves everything, but may be more work since clicking the 'configure' button would have to open a new dialog. 3) | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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I'd propose to implement 1). While it has downsides, it's trivial to implement and is a step forward imho. Should it cause too much trouble, we can either revert it, or sometimes later implement possibly 3). |
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I think 1) makes sense. I don't think anyone will want to switch the visualization preset and leave the visualization off at the same time. |
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I don't understand why would anybody expect that changes of skin automatically enable visualization. These two things are completely unrelated. I don't know for any program that behaves like that. I suggested something similar to 2) in https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=20425 because of another issue. However, I would rather add the radio buttons for the existing items and add one new option for "None" or something similarly named. In that way, selecting of any item other than "None" would turn on Visualization, and selecting "None" would turn it off. |
