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[Seb Ruiz]

On 8 February 2010 10:38, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking at web.de> wrote:
> Am Monday 08 February 2010 schrieb Seb Ruiz:
>> 1. How do I navigate to the next and prev track?
> Known issue. Here comes a shot.
> Happy bashing :-)
>
> @Markey:
> sorry, but the sunken gradient worked especially _not_ with the oxygen style
> (adn most other styles offer options or fixed toolbar gradients/plates anyway)
> :-(
>
>> this can be really
>> confusing; since the text cycles between the various metadata that is
>> available.
> Cycling is meant to provide extra info (as the "Title" tag can be as useless
> as "Allegro")
> I agree that whether things like year and the genre need to remain is
> debatable ;-)
>
>> 2. Clicking on the metadata has various inconsistencies.
> Replace "various" by "a" or name more ;-P
>
>> Clicking on the current track labels  filters the collection browser by the
> current text that you've clicked.
>>...
>> What is the rationale behind this functionality?
> The filtering is mainly a relict from when you could "easily" select the
> current item with the mousewheel (now changes volume)
> I simply thought it would be nice to easily filter for all entries of this
> artist, genre or whatever.
> A better usage might in fact be to jump to the song in the playlist

Either that, or clicking should do nothing.

>
>> 3. The text cycles very slowly when the mouse is not hovering, but
>> very quickly when the mouse moves over the labels. This means that
>> clicking on these labels is a bit useless, since they change so
>> quickly when I see something I want to click.
> see above.

See what above?

>
>> 4. The text labels have useless information: why show the year and track
>>  number?
> see above.
> the track number should not be part of the list, but there's some heuristic to
> break down the information from the filename in case the tune has not tags. in
> fact a delimited track number will then be part of it... :-\
>
>> 5. Changing the volume precisely with a mouse press is very difficult.
>> It seems to jump everywhere even with a few pixels of movement.
> Hummm?
> Technically it's just a QDial (only override painting is overridden)
> Does it behave different from normal dials for you?

I think that dials are one of the worst QWidgets around. They're just
all around hard to use.

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