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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0008150 | MMW v4 | Main Panel | public | 2011-07-14 17:07 | 2011-09-14 23:17 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | tweak | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 4.0 | ||||
| Target Version | 4.0 | Fixed in Version | 4.0 | ||
| Summary | 0008150: Clean up tab order in main panel | ||||
| Description | Current tab order is: Tree, Now Playing, Art & Details Window, [Column Browser], Filelist, Search It would be better to organize this as follows: Tree, [Column Browser/ArtBrowser], Search, Filelist, Now Playing, Art & Details OR Filelist, Tree, [Column Browser/ArtBrowser], Search, Filelist, Now Playing, Art & Details OR Filelist, Tree, [Column Browser/ArtBrowser], Search, Now Playing, Art & Details Thoughts? Note: The Art Browser cannot currently get focus. If the user switches focus to the Art Browser, using the right/left arrow keys should cause the ArtBrowser albums to move right/left. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 1408 | ||||
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First of all, I'm not sure whether A&D and tabs in the main window even need to receive focus, I think that it would be easier to use it they don't (as e.g. in Chrome). Then, my preferred Tab order would be: Tree, [Column Browser/ArtBrowser], Filelist, Now Playing, Search |
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Tabs in the main window definititely shouldnt' receive focus (that issue is mostly resolved in bug 0008085). As far as Tab order preference, I reviewed some other similar apps for comparison: Explorer: Tracklist, Url bar, Search, Menu, Tree WMP: Tree, Guide, Tracklist, NP Toolbar, ?, Player Seekbar, Player Commands, Main Toolbar Commands, NP Tabs, Navigation Toolbar, Search iTunes: Tree, Search, Tracklist, Sidebar, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Column Browser Based on what's common to the above, and your and my previous suggestions, perhaps the following would make most sense: Tree, Tracklist, Now Playing, [Column Browser/ArtBrowser], Search, ?Main Toolbar?, ?NP Menu Bar?, ?Player?, Art & Details |
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If tabs in the main window don't need focus, what is the reason that the art+details panel tabs also need to receive focus? I can't imagine too many people will need to use the keyboard to choose the tab there. Actually, I really wouldn't mind either way, but I think the "focus" lines around the tabs when they are selected are visually unappealing. Edited in: and wouldn't it be better in the properties window to always keep focus on the first field when using keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs? Is there any reason you need to focus on the tabs here? |
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Yes, as I wrote above, also Art&Details panel shouldn't receive focus. As for Rusty's latest proposal, I wouldn't include items with '?', since Player doesn't seem to need focus and also menu bars historically don't receive focus (and are triggered by Alt instead). Then, I'd also move Column Browser right after the Tree, since (in case it's enabled), it seems to make more sense to be used as a way of customizing tracklist results, before even tabbing to the Tracklist. So, the result would be: Tree, [Column Browser/ArtBrowser], Tracklist, Now Playing, Search, Art & Details |
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OK. Sounds good. btw, Stephen, the reason for not giving focus to tabs in the main window is that shortcuts exist to switch between them. This isn't the case for either the Art&Details window or the Properties dialog. |
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Fixed in 1408 |
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@Rusty: Ctrl+Tab works in Properties. I think it'd be better to use that and leave focus on the fields themselves in the properties window. |
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Resolving this for now since this is so minor and we're pushing anything non-essential to 4.0. But we can create a new bug for post 4.0 if needed. |
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Verified 1432 |
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Remaining issue moved to 0008380 |
