Hi Ralf,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 June 2011 15:27, Ralf Engels <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ralf-engels@gmx.de">ralf-engels@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Lukas,<br>
I wanted to write a point by point review here but let's first start<br>
like this:<br>
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1. What is confusing for you in the new dynamic playlist implementation.<br>
Was there something that you did not understand?<br></blockquote><div><br>
At first I was looking at APG, but form what I later understood, the ol' good
Dynamic playlist (DP) is going to be kept. Yes dynamic playlist UI is
much more understandable :), yet (it could be due to no accurate translations) its not immediately obvious which one filter to choose. <br><br>* Also filter drop down is somewhat random sorted (rating is twice below bpm), makes usage slow.<br>
<br>* If you want to have playlist with 7 artists, currently it would be 7 filters, and on my laptop only 3 fits in the view port without scrolling.<br>
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2. What are the deficiencies that you want to fix with the new design?<br></blockquote><div><br>* editing DP could be placed into context area, so its easy to switch to another DP. <br>
Drop down with saved playlits in DP feels something wrong, doesn't get users attentions. Saving requires dialog, and dialogs are a bit annoying,<br>
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* User can type filters FIRST, and later select (or have auto-selected) where they apply later.<br>
You can just type in artists name, and Amarok knows its an artist, so it means less scrolling in the dropdown.<br>
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* More than one one title/tag/artist per single filter. <br>
If you want playlist with e.g. 7 artists, it would be a single filter.
Currently it would be 7 filters, and on my laptop only 5 fits in the view
port.<br>
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* Drop down auto-complete<br>
Pretty self explanatory. It can also be reused in local music
collection. As auto complete educates/forces/helps users to use * for wild cards, it
might be possible to avoid %term% in SQL. Wild card at the beginning
on the search term usually makes indexes useless -> slower search.<br>
<br>Rest is less important :)<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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><br></blockquote><div><br>Cheers,<br><br>Lukas <br></div></div>