| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0006487 | MMW v4 | Now Playing | public | 2010-09-17 18:23 | 2011-04-12 22:04 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | immediate | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 4.0 | ||||
| Target Version | 4.0 | Fixed in Version | 4.0 | ||
| Summary | 0006487: Improved Album Art / Details dialog | ||||
| Description | The Album Art dialog should be improved as described at: http://www.jirihajek.net/MMwiki/index.php/MM_4.0_UI#Now_Playing The implementation in build 1312 looks great. Here are a few suggestions for further improvement: 1) a) The titlebar should be disabled by default (i.e. on a clean install). b) 'Show Titlebar' context-menu entry should be changed to 'Show Titlebar (move window)' (this will apply to all such strings, since we'll be disabling the titlebar elsewhere and users should be clear on how to move the window) c) 'Show file details' (instead of 'Show Track Details') should appear _immediately below_ 'Show Titlebar (move window)' in the context menu d) 'Choose fields' (instead of 'Configure Fields to Show') should appear immediately below 'Show file details' in the context menu. Note: this is probably going to have to be modified at some point since: i) the fields will differ depending on the file type (e.g. TV Shows should show 'Show', and then 'Episode' , whereas music should show 'Title', etc...). e) 'Fields Selection' dialog can be renamed to 'Choose fields...' 2) The Window should be moved to the right at the bottom of Now playing by default (i.e. on a clean install) since it gives more space to the Tree, and since the default player will no longer contain Album Art on the right side. 3) The tabs contain graphical artifacts that should be cleaned up 4) The thick black line below the tabs is kind of ugly--it should be replaced with a thin grey line that matches the tabs 5)a) The detail text should be aligned with the left edge of the line above it (currently it appears too far to the left). b) Also, there should be a bit of space between letters such as 'y' or 'p' and the Album art--currently the letters touch the AA. c) DreadM suggested that the text is too small. I disagree, but wonder if this should be configurable. 6) The right-click options to choose Now Playing vs Selected can be removed (since the tabs add this function) 7) The details fields shouldn't show anything if the field is empty ('unknown' just clutters the view). 8) The ratings field should display star ratings (currently it shows a number 0-100) 9) The list of fields shown to display doesn't seem to match other similar lists elsewhere in MM (see 0004681) 10) The 'Choose fields' dialog should be implemented with checkboxes instead. i.e. enable all fields to be displayed with checkboxes, and then use the arrows to change the order if needed. The current method is onerous. 11) It might be worth changing the dialog to 'Art & Details' instead of 'Album Art.' | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 1333 | ||||
- Anonymous
