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0003309MMW v4Install/Configpublic2007-07-27 19:34
Reporterrusty Assigned To 
PriorityimmediateSeveritytweakReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionfixed 
Product Version3.0 
Fixed in Version3.0 
Summary0003309: Options UI cleanup
DescriptionOptions Cleanup:

This summarizes a list of minor options panel changes for usability and look, without going into a complete re-implementation:

General Comment:
Sometimes the UI shows a Bold Header, and sometimes a box is used to group config items. I prefer the second approach as it looks cleaner; we should be more consistent about this.

Comments by Panel:

General
 -Eliminate the white space between 'always show tray icon' and Minimization settings
 -Move Font Size to Appearance
 -Change Minimization settings text as follows:
 ---Minimize to tray --> Minimize to MicroMonkey
 ---Minimize to Now Playing ---> Minimize to MiniMonkey

General>Party Mode:
 -Left align the 'Player Controls' section

General>Network (Proxy & Freedb)
 -Align 'Proxy Server' heading
 -Align 'Freedb Settings' heading
 -Remove 'Alternate Servers' link

Player
 -Move 'Display format for long titles' below the 'Choose Player' section and indent
 -Indent, and correctly left align the 'Pop up Display' section
 -Align the 'Pop-up Display' heading
 -Align the Default 'Double-click' action heading
 -Make sure that the 'Display format...' and 'Pop up Display' sections are greyed if the (o) MediaMonkey Player isn't selected
 -Move the Pop-up Display section below the 'Default Double-Click' Action section

Player>Volume Leveling
 -The 'per Album' dropdown box should be right-or left-aligned with other boxes
 -Move 'Automatically analyze volume of unanalyzed Tracks' to be the third option in the 'General' box on that panel

Podcast configuration
 -Correctly align the second portion of the dialog (i.e. everything from 'When new episodes are available:' should be nudged to the left.

Library
 -Change 'Ignore songs shorter...' to 'Ignore Tracks shorter...' (2x)

Library > Tags and playlists
 -Checkboxes aren't left aligned with entries that don't have checkboxes

Library > Appearance:
 -bug 2211

Portable/Audio Devices
 -Add a 'Delete' button below 'Configure'
 -Bug 2164 for individual device config

Appearance
 -Get rid of this entry as described in 2211
Appearance > Tree
 -Get rid of this entry as described in 2211/553

Skin
 -We can dramatically shrink the section for overriding Skin backgrounds, but this isn't critical unless we need the space
TagsNo tags attached.
Fixed in build1053

Relationships

related to 0002211 closedLudek Library-related configuration entries aren't in an intuitive location 
related to 0000553 closedpetr Enable Basic Tree / Column customization 
related to 0002164 feedbackrusty New Device Detection/Rejection/configuration 'wizard' 
related to 0003312 closedpetr Now Playing Transparency --> MiniPlayer Transparency 
related to 0003313 closedLudek Equalizer Transparency should be configurable from Equalizer (ui cleanup) 

Activities

rusty

2007-07-20 18:06

administrator   ~0009875

updated 'General' section with text re. MiniMonkey and MicroMonkey as suggested by Petr.

Ludek

2007-07-21 14:09

developer   ~0009882

Last edited: 2007-07-21 17:23

All is fixed except the proposal specified in the bug 2211. I guess that it will be handled in that bug.

Re:
 -Align 'x' heading
Note: when 'Casino orange' skin is active then the frame (group box) is invisible because it has the same color like background (dark gray).

rusty

2007-07-23 04:02

administrator   ~0009884

Tested 1051--this looks _much_ better. A couple of remaining issues:

Player:
-Move 'Display format for long titles' to the bottom of the panel (below the pop-up display settings). It looks strange in its current location
-'Display format for long titles' should be greyed out if Winamp2 is the player

Library > Appearance:
-Appearance panel should be moved to a subnode of Library (i.e. Appearance --> Library > Appearance
. Appearance > Tree --move to--> Libary > Tree (though this will be updated further when we resolve 2211)
. Appearance > Skin --move to--> Skin
-'Font Size' should be moved to the Skin panel (sorry about that--it fits better there)

Ludek

2007-07-26 13:33

developer   ~0009932

All is fixed in build 1053
except 'Display format for long titles' should be greyed out if Winamp2 is the player - I've asked Petr for this and he told me that it depends on skin.
i.e. the label is disabled, but the color of disabled text depends on skin.
Ask Petr for details.

rusty

2007-07-27 19:34

administrator   ~0009952

Verified 1053.