0007198: Improve Main Menu / Tabs layout to preserve vertical space - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0007198	MMW v4	Main Panel/Toolbars/Menus	public	2011-01-19 18:19	2011-02-13 21:58

Reporter	rusty	Assigned To
Priority	immediate	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	4.0
Target Version	4.0	Fixed in Version	4.0

Summary	0007198: Improve Main Menu / Tabs layout to preserve vertical space
Description	As suggested at http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=54591#p283024 : - The current '+' button to add a tab is non-standard and redundant when 2 or more tabs are open - It would be preferable if there was an option to collapse or move the main menu in some manner to save space, without compromising a users ability to access those commands This was originally specced for MM4, but never made it to implementation. A quick fix would be to: 1) Add an option to View: '[x] Main Menu' (above the 'Tree' option). 2) If the option is disabled: -<alt> causes it to appear (for the duration of executing a single command) -Clicking MM icon causes it to appear (for the duration of executing a single command) 3) If 2 or more tabs are active, don't show '+' in the Main Menu This would allow us to test the workflow, and at a later date, we can pretty it up, if desired with a new (?larger) MM icon in the corner.
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Fixed in build	1348

Mizery_Made 2011-01-19 19:26 updater ~0022460	If #3 is implemented, it may be a good idea to move the "New Tab" button to the end of the main menu, so that if it becomes hidden there's no large gap where it once was or need for the main menu to shift to fill said gap. Though wouldn't a File -> New Tab option and New Tab toolbar button be a more "standard" approach? Rather than hard coding it as a button on the "main menu"? RE: "- It would be preferable if there was an option to [...] move the main menu" It has been requested by some (myself included) to have the ability to move the menu in the same way we could in MM3. A point raised by someone on the forum is that for many users, moving the menu to the title bar doesn't conserve space as they've already got other tool bars like Search or Views taking up a row, where the Main Menu would otherwise fit fine. I would certainly prefer (to have) that (as an option) myself.

petr 2011-02-08 11:16 developer ~0022907	Implemented in 1347

rusty 2011-02-08 20:40 administrator ~0022919	Looks great. A couple of issues: 1) '+' Tab doesn't always create a new tab (+ corollary effects) Click NP, +, Music, +, Classical, +, Audiobook, + --> sometimes when clicking + the tab will not appear. Once that occurs Click 'x' on all the tabs --> Even the last tab can be closed If you Click 'x' on all the tabs except for 1 tab, and then close MM --> On restart, 2 tabs appear MM 'thinks' that >1 tab exists due to the fact that clicking '+' at the first step "created a tab" even though the tab doesn't display. Note: on another occasion, MM went into a state where the '+' tab had no effect at all, no matter how often it was clicked. I assume it's related to the above issue. 2) When adding a new tab for nodes that have Art Browser enabled, MM generates endless error messages (major) 3) Alt key doesn't work well to enable the tab after it's used 2x. e.g. if Menu Bar is disabled, Press Alt --> menu appears, Press Alt --> menu disappears, Press Alt --> No effect

rusty 2011-02-08 23:16 administrator ~0022921	Tested 1347b and items 2 and 3 are still open. Item 1 is correctly resolved.

petr 2011-02-09 08:16 developer ~0022923	Item 2 fixed in next build

petr 2011-02-09 16:10 developer ~0022930	Fixed in 1348

~~stephen_platt~~ 2011-02-09 18:48 developer ~0022946	Tabs are too high, they need to be moved down 2 pixels to touch the toolbar.

rusty 2011-02-11 19:29 administrator ~0023018	Resolving, since the feature is complete, and opened the issue that Stephen raised in a new bug 0007362.

~~stephen_platt~~ 2011-02-13 21:58 developer ~0023051	verified 1348