Organise Collection/Filename Layout Dialog changes

[Casey Link]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
> I've voiced my concern with the organise collection and filename
> layout dialogs for quite some time now, expressing my dissatifaction
> with the UI design and the immense amount of size used by the dialogs.
> I've put in the effort to do some reorganising of these dialogs to try
> and improve these dialogues whilst taking into account the work that
> Teo and Leinir have put into these features over the last few months.
>
> Dialogs as seen in trunk:
>  - http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3024/organise5ty4.png
>  - http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/9332/organise6rd5.png
>
> You can see that the dialog without the custom token widget showing
> wastes lots of vertical space, and seems all over the place. Worse,
> the dialogs are actually taller than Amarok, and the dialogs insist on
> fixed widget sizes and size policies - this is bad.
>
> General use case for these dialogs should be something akin to
> "configure once, run many times". Essentially, all these micro options
> which are shown get in the way when you actually need to use the
> feature. For this reason I've reshuffled the UI to have tabs and
> demote the character replacement options to it's own tab. This
> dramatically reduces the height of the dialog.
>  - http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/3711/organise1pe0.png
>  - http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/1977/organise2te0.png
>
> I've also tweaked the custom token dialog. The "collection root" and
> the "collection slash" widgets which precede the token list have been
> removed as they waste horizontal space and provide no new information
> which isn't available in the preview widget.
>  - http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/5035/organise3kz8.png
>
> NB: I have not removed nor added any feature from the refactoring.
> There have also been no string changes. It is simply a UI redesign.
>
> I'd like to commit this before 2.0 final as I see it as an improvement
> on usability and design. Feedback please?
>
> --
> Seb Ruiz
>

I think it's great! Light years less cluttered than the current dialog. +1

Casey