0013225: Properties dialog improvements - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0013225	MMW 5	General	public	2016-04-12 19:09	2018-10-07 18:53

Reporter	rusty	Assigned To
Priority	high	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	assigned	Resolution	open

Summary	0013225: Properties dialog improvements
Description	MM5 currently displays and allows the user to edit properties via two different UIs: - The Album Art window (as specced in 0013406, compact, non-modal, but incomplete). - The standalone Properties dialog (it should provide comprehensive editing functionality). The problem at the moment, is that: 1) The Properties dialog is _not_ comprehensive in its feature set (e.g. missing various auto-lookup tools) 2) It's not dockable--this would be helpful 3) The dialog takes up so much space. To elaborate: 1) Properties dialog is _not_ comprehensive--the following features are missing (see MM4): a) Move to new folder b) Rename file based on file properties c) Auto-tag from filename d) Auto-tag from Web e) Lookup lyrics f) Lookup artwork g) Buy album (perhaps we should defer until we figure out a global strategy for this) Note: we'll probably consolidate d/e/f into a single Lookup metadata feature that would replace the individual features. 2) It's not dockable: The dialog should always appears (if enabled) as a dockable UI element, displaying whatever track is selected by the user. Note: this may not make sense in Touch mode. 3) It should use smaller text / spacing (similar to MusicBee OR MM5 Album Art view--though not quite so small). Note: Jiri suggested that this should be post 1.0, however, I think that at the very least, the items described in issue 1) should be implemented since they're a regression from MM4.
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Fixed in build

petr 2016-10-04 20:51 developer ~0045818	Item 1 implemented. Reduce priority for dockable implementation.

rusty 2017-08-11 17:01 administrator ~0048515 Last edited: 2017-08-11 20:39	I think that maybe the intent of the original spec was unclear. The intent was that the Edit Properties dialog should be much smaller with much less wasted space (more similar to the A&D dialog). In addition, it should be persistent so that if a user is editing tracks, they don't have to continually enable the dialog (in MM4 it was possible to make the dialog persist AND to switch between tracks using the dialog--now with MM5 the user has to open and close the dialog to edit each track). Also, there's a bug re. hints in this dialog. When the user places the cursor over the auto-organize or auto-tag icons, the hint describing the function sometimes fails to appear.

petr 2018-10-07 18:53 developer ~0051280	Added ability to dock dialogs (implemented for track properties dialog for now). Can be enabled in mminit using window.settings.UI.dockableDialogs const.