Organise Collection/Filename Layout Dialog changes

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Casey Link <unnamedrambler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I welcome your changes as well. Please go ahead.

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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
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