Re-examining Dynamic Mode.

[Ian Monroe]

On 6/3/06, Joel Wiramu Pauling <aenertia at aenertia.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 03 June 2006 20:03, Ian Monroe wrote:
> > On 6/3/06, Joel Wiramu Pauling <aenertia at aenertia.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > So... whats your ideal implementation look like?
>
> Well I think now that we have moved to K3M style windowing (HORAH! something I
> suggested AGES ago ;-) there are a number of options.
>
> I think for the moment, just adding it back into the tools menu and perhaps
> having it select and popup the default "suggested songs" or "random songs"
> playlist might be a start.
>
> Perhaps in a wizard style implementation.

If we're putting it bace the menu structure it should be under the
"mode" menu, since its XORed with the rest of the modes.

>
> I don't want to change the playlist concept as mentioned I think from a purely
> academic point of view that makes sense.
>
> Perhaps with k3m the concept of having the dynamic mode playlist loading as a
> seperate pane above the main playlist... and populating concurently could
> work...
>
> I.e You have the main playlist above it the suggested/random dynamic list...
> and then say being able to manually add stuff to the main playlist from the
> suggested/dynamic playlist....
>
> Essentially this would be similar to the context menu, but far more specific
> and easier to manage. It also increases functionality in that you have more
> control over what is actually getting played....
>
> I like this idea quite a lot, and it also means you don't have two different
> metaphors operating for the main playlist pane.
>
> What do others think?

I don't see the point of this idea. Why would I want to manually add
stuff, goes againist the whole purpose of dynamic mode (which for me
is to play jmus.