Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee UI Update

[Buyongo Phiri <devicehandler gmail com>]

I like what you are proposing, I haven't had a lot of time as of late,
I will rethink the ideas and rework the mockup. I was thinking though
with the "thumbnail view" that it would be best say to have it filter
by artist as default, you can then have extra info like number of
albums by artists/minute or hours of play and maybe genre or
year(below thumbnail image) or which the user can switch to as their
primary filter, I hope that makes sense.  In a way I think it will
obsolete the current view though I stand to be corrected.  In my
personal experience I find it very difficult to filter music with the
current setup as I can only filter by artist/album and scrolling
through some thousands of songs is rather time consuming. I would like
to explore some more intuitive ways for users to browse through their
music collection and see if and how they can be incorporated into
banshee, will keep you posted.

On 1/8/11, Matt Sturgeon <mttza1 gmail com> wrote:
> There are some nice concepts in the browsing area there - it's good to have
> user options - and I think i'll incorporate that rating widget into my
> toolbar mockups at some point - however you neglected to link to the forum
> posting.
>
> My main concern with the ideas proposed is your idea of completely removing
> artist filtering. I think rather than showing a "thumbnail view", you simply
> show the various views Banshee is currently capable of. Namely vertical
> splitting or horizontal splitting. It should be possible to toggle
> individual filter categories, though.
>
> I think what we should see is:
>  1. Browser on-top (filtered)
>  2. Browser on-left (filtered)
>  3. Rich-list (categorized)
>  4. (not sure necessary) Text-list (categorized)
>  5. No browser (unfiltered/categorized tracklist).
>
> 1, 2, and 5 already exist - however in a slightly harder to configure way.
>
> I think to impliment this, step one would be creating a catogorized track
> listing (no. 2 or 3) and add it to the View menu, with the Browser settings
> ("Show Browser", "Browser on Top" and "Browser on Left") and step two would
> be creating a more visual, and re-worded, way of switching.
>
> As for the toolbar, I think that should be designed separately - taking into
> consideration the view-switching widgit that will need to be
> designed/implemented also.
>
> It would also be nice to see which of these views/browsers can be applied to
> Videos.
> And as a side note, it would be nice to have a "Tools --> Rescan Video
> Library", as seen for Music.
>
> Further discussion/comments on any point(s)?
>
>
>
> On 7 January 2011 16:18, devicehandler <devicehandler gmail com> wrote:
>
>> Hi People, I started with some mock-ups after looking at what Matt
>> Sturgeon
>> was getting up to in terms of trying to rework the tool-bar area. I think
>> that we have a great opportunity to improve the overall look and feel of
>> the
>> media player and all whilst making it more usable. I jotted down a few
>> ideas
>> and reworked my original mock-ups to something I think is more usable and
>> with room for improvement still. *Added a view/layout selector at the top
>> right hand corner *Shortened the width of the search box *Added a rating
>> widget *lengthened the track progression widget *Moved the volume control
>> to
>> the left with the remainder of the audio control buttons *Added an
>> individual shuffle and repeat button with an arrow to indicate more
>> options
>> The views themselves are rather self explanatory I would like to think
>> though I am open to discussion for all that are interested. The main I
>> idea
>> is to allow for a break in the constant flow of information especially in
>> list views by using the sort value as a heading/sub-heading for files
>> being
>> viewed by a user. The rich list style view will have album art as well as
>> other artist information below the album art(genre/year) The last view is
>> a
>> grid view with a list pane to the right which will display context
>> sensitive
>> information depending on what the user has selected. I believe these
>> changes
>> can assist in improving the workflow for users compared to the current
>> setup
>> where you have to columns that show the same information in grid(album
>> art)
>> and list format and a browser, the changes will come in especially handy
>> for
>> users with large size libraries. Changes, Ideas and comments are very
>> welcome.
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