changing rating in playlist inline editor

[Bart Cerneels]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 16:01, Edward "Hades" Toroshchin
<edward.hades at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I've recently tried to change a song's rating in the playlist. And I
> didn't like it much. To change the rating you have to do the following:
>
> 1. Click the stars in the playlist.
> 2. Wait a little before the next click, otherwise it'll be double click.
> 3. Click the stars again to start inline editing.
> 4. Click the stars again to choose new rating.
> 5. Scratch your head, because now you need to save rating somehow, but
> is not immediately obvious how.
> 6. Click one of the other edit boxes to focus them.
> 7. Hit enter.
>
> So, to change the rating you have to click 4 (four) times and press
> Enter 1 (one) time. Do you not think it's a bit too much? And I'm not
> counting the certain amount of figuring out to do.
>
> My suggestion is to remove all the items below and including #4 by
> making the act of setting the new rating also trigger saving it and
> ending editing.
>
> This however would not please the guy at bug 223309 [1] and other
> old-amarok fans, because they would also like to remove items #1 and #2
> (and I personally see their point), but I do not think it is very easy
> to implement.
>
> What do you think?
>

I agree. If the playlist items are editable a single click should suffice.

In fact I would not allow the option of a read-only playlist at all.
Accidental edits (certainly on the ratings) can be corrected with
undo.