extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/browsers/collectionbrowser

Orville Bennett illogical1 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 23:27:16 CET 2009


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On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:

> Dan Meltzer wrote:
>> clicking to add media is a) standard, and b) very fast.  Having to
>> drag+drop is going to be much slower, with the PUD you need to search
>> and find the correct action (debating to oneself what exactly the
>> difference between "append" and "load" might be, and with dropping
>
> I agree that the difference between Load and Append in the context  
> menu
> and PUD are not extremely clear.  So let's fix it.
>
> One issue though is that there are playlists, and there is the  
> Playlist.
> So something like "Add to Playlist" might also be confusing for users.
"Add to Current Playlist"?
Or if it's so confusing, just remove the option. Problem solved.
Personally I prefer something more puerile like "Tack it On!" and  
"Start Afresh!"
Might have translation problems though...

> Renaming it to Queue will cause us to run into the same issues again
> should 1.4 style queueing tracks ever be re-added.
>
> One more visual way to do it might be to use arrows to make it clear
> which playlist we're talking about.  You could change the  
> orientation of
> the two PUD items in question so that the icon is on the right; if you
> then make the icon a rightward-facing arrow, it might make it clear  
> what
> "Overwrite" and "Append" mean.  This doesn't help the context menu  
> though.
>
> --Jeff
>
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