<span class="gmail_quote">On 8/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Mitchell</b> <<a href="mailto:kde-dev@emailgoeshere.com">kde-dev@emailgoeshere.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
On Thursday 09 August 2007, Bart Cerneels wrote:<br>> This concept seems very viable to me. After all, when selecting music<br>> we are somewhat less interested in it's context (for music tracks at<br>> least). In the very least, that is not where the users (eye)focus is.
<br>> So why not use this multi column track selection UI instead of<br>> PopUpDropper and let it cover the contextview. The deeper in the<br>> hierarchy you go the less far you have to drag to the playlistview.<br>
<br>Just in point of fact, allowing easy access to add tracks to the playlist was<br>only one of the ideas behind the PUD. Allowing easy access to add tracks to<br>(other collections, burnable CDs, media devices, organizing folders, etc)
<br>were also ideas. I doubt with the new context view with Plasma that anything<br>will ever come of it, but who knows some day...</blockquote><div><br>That is a valid point, but on the other hand I do think that we need some sort of mechanism that will allow the user to drag-n-drop tracks from the browsers to the playlist *without* needing to cross a lot of dead space first. I like the PUD way because it provides one possible
<br>solution to this issue. I don't really know how to integrate mxcl's idea, but having spent quite a bit of time on OS X i really like the scrolling column<br>navigation, it feels really natural. </div><br>leo<br>
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