Collection improvements suggestions

[Pierre-Luc Auclair]

Le jeudi, 2 avril 2009 03:18:18, Bart Cerneels a écrit :
> The "transfer management context view" I don't like. Transfer progress
> of individual tracks should be indicated in the main Collection view
> (i.e. CollectionBrowser). Perhaps you can figure out a way to
> integrated that. I was considering using the background of the title
> text as progress bar. But I like your progress indicator so much I
> would prefer to use that instead.

I wasn't all that sure about it either. I have thought about other ways to do 
it but just haven't assembled mockups for it yet. I'll try coming up with 
something good before this weekend.

> This UI only allows a device (Collection) centric view. This is no
> problem with 1 or 2 Collections, but would be awkward, perhaps
> unusable when there are more. 

I'm not sure it would be much of a problem. First, the container only takes 
about 2 lines, but of course, if you really want to make it as small as 
possible, you can remove the icon (it's a visual cue, but it has no real 
purpose) and make it fit on one line.

Personally, I would rather keep it two lines big, as it's a much better drop 
target, but it can certainly be made smaller without much hurt if required.

Also, I'm not sure how many people have more than 2 or 3 collections, but I'm 
rather certain most will only have one, and maybe a second one when their ipod 
is plugged in. I guess if there's a lot more, maybe there could be a way to 
scroll up and down (not with another scrollbar, but with up/down arrows at the 
top and bottom cause it would be ugly otherwise). Somewhat defeats the purpose 
of it all, but it's better than nothing I would say.

> How would you do a content centric view
> with only one tree without collection as root items? (assume there are
> no duplicate items because one can represent the versions of multiple
> Collections).

I'm not sure what would be present in a content centric view. Is it all the 
same kind of content, are there multiple types, etc ? Could you give me a 
theorical case of what you're talking about to work with please ?

Pierre-Luc