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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0004031 | MMW v4 | Main Panel/Toolbars/Menus | public | 2007-11-26 17:19 | 2008-12-07 14:34 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | high | Severity | tweak | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | feedback | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 3.0 | ||||
| Summary | 0004031: Date column truncates on the wrong side | ||||
| Description | If the user makes the date column narrow so that the entire date isn't visible, MM should truncate the day/month/year. That way, users who don't want to see the entire date in the tracklist can configure MM to just show the year. (note: if we can't do this, is there any real reason for this column to be right aligned?). | ||||
| Additional Information | http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22808 | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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I don't think I can agree. First of all, I think that it's correct that this column is right aligned, it looks better when years are aligned (at least to me). As for truncation, it isn't clear what's better. On one hand, removing day and month first seems to be quite logical, but on the other hand it probably is quite useless e.g. for Podcasts where day/moth is more important than year (particularly if sorted by date field). |
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I also agree that it makes more sense for the field to be right-aligned. But, if we right-align then I would expect that the fields within date (day/month/year) should also be aligned, and this isn't the case with the current truncation logic. Note: if the user wants to see the actual date, wouldn't they make the column sufficiently wide? Otherwise the column just looks like a mess. |
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Ahh, I see, so you would actually like to see '/' characters to be all placed on the same horizontal position, right? That's quite a problem, since most Windows fonts use variable character width (unlike e.g. Courier), we would have to somehow draw the data ourselves. Although it would be possible, it's even more complicated because the date is formatted according to user locale settings, e.g. in Czech it's 'dd.mm.yyyy'. I'd prefer to leave as is... |
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actually, not suggesting that they be made into columns, but rather that if the field is truncated from the left that it would automatically align correctly. e.g. For the dates: 11/21/2007 2006 Current display if the Date column is narrow is: 11/2... 2006 Better display if the column is narrow would be: 2007 2006 |
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It still doesn't seem to be really an issue to me. First of all, as I wrote, the day/month part is probably more important than year (in case it's available!) and so it's good to show it. Then, your suggestion would require drawing ellipsis ('...') to the left of the string, like '...1997', which might look a little strange. |
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Set to 'high' however, when it comes to music, the Year is invariable of greater relevance than the Month/Date, so I still think that we should fix this at some point. |
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Please note that not all locales has the year as the rightmost property. In Sweden we use: 2008-08-30 (YYYY-MM-DD) So if fixing this truncate issue, such locales needs to be considered as well. |
