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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000845 | MMW v4 | Other | public | 2003-10-30 16:04 | 2007-09-11 17:05 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | low | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0000845: Send to network location | ||||
| Description | As requested, it should be possible to send a track to a network location. | ||||
| Additional Information | http://www.songs-db.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=739 | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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It's generally a good idea, however network browsing can be quite time consuming and only moving mouse above some elements could cause system stalls. I don't know if there's a way how to arrange the UI to prevent such problems. |
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I was about to agree with you and then thought of something. When the user moves the mouse over Network Locations, there wouldn't be a system stall--the only time a system stall would occur is when the user goes more than one level deep into Network Locations. Thus, the issue you raise may not be a problem, since: -the user is unlikely to accidentally cause a network browse-related stall (for the above reason) -the user expects browsing delays when he/she _does_ intend to browse the network Thoughts? |
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I'm still a bit afraid that it will cause some problems, but we can try it. |
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I was thinking about our current Send-to implementation and how to modify it so that this functionality can be more effectively supported and came up with the following: When the user tries to: a) Send-to Folder (copy) b) Send-to Folder (move) c) Send-to Folder (convert) Rather than forcing the user to choose a location from within the context menu, what should happen is that as soon as the user right-clicks on Send-to X, a File Browser type of Window opens, from which the user selects the desired location. This is a great solution because: 1) it's more usable 2) it utilizas controls/functionality that already exists--even for Network Locations!! |
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I think there are some problems in the proposal: - I don't see how to easily implement history of folders in this case, which is quite a useful feature. - In case of sending to folders that aren't too deep in the tree struture the current solution is faster, particularly when sending to a portable player that's mounted as an X: drive letter you only have to press mouse button on 'Send to', move the pointer a little, release it then and tracks are copied. Considering this and the fact that your proposal has some advantages, particularly it can send to Network, I think we could compose the popup menu like: history1 history2 ... -------- *Select folder* (which opens the dialog you proposed) -------- folder1 folder2 ... I'd possibly defer fixing the bug, because we don't have themed select folder dialog yet (we use std. Windows one). |
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