[GSoC status report] Week 4

[Téo Mrnjavac]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 18:55, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This has been a reasonably productive week. I've fixed another weird
>>
>> > crash with no backtrace (and learned to be more careful when using
>> > named ctors) and handled some important details in ffmpeg's syntax and
>> > its use through KProcess. I've added some more customizations for
>> > Vorbis encoding parameters, but then I've scrapped most of the testing
>> > UI for that and started working on the real thing. After the issues at
>> > the sprint in Randa, transcoding works again. Currently, this [1] is
>> > what the user would get if the tried to copy a track, though for now
>> > it only works from the file browser. The idea is to allow sane,
>> > context-sensitive and clearly documented defaults for noobs and more
>> > detailed encoder configuration options for nerds, and I believe that
>> > QCommandLinkButtons could be the right thing to use here in order to
>> > keep things simple and pretty.
>> >
>> > Next week, more UI and replacing the stubs in TranscodeFormat with
>> > real ctors for formats other than Vorbis that we definitely want to
>> > support.
>> >
>> > [1] http://imagebin.ca/view/1OOuyfyc.html
>>
>> I'd change the order so that noob and nerd options are next to each other,
>> it just feels that it should be this way (at least if they're on the same
>> level, because I understand that you wanted to make nerd option less
>> visible, but it doesn't work like that now) .
>>
> I agree with Kuba that the current order isn't very intuitive. I'd suggest a
> different order, though. A logical order would be from the simplest to the
> most complex action: Copy, encode with default options, encode with custom
> options. Although you might wish encoding to be more prominent, copy as the
> first action still makes sense since that is the action the user originally
> intended if she didn't know the encoding option yet. Encoding is a very useful
> suggestion, but simple copying should be the default action.

I just moved it to be exactly like this.
Thank you all for your suggestions :)
Cheers
Teo