Re: Transmageddon: Ideas

["Daniel G. Taylor" <dan programmer-art org>]

On 02/07/2011 10:15 AM, Stefan Kost wrote:
> ...
> > Been considering the queue of items option quite a few times, I am
> > trying to keep the UI very basic and I haven't come up with an idea for
> > a look yet of how the queue system would work without complicating
> > things to much.
>
> Arista has a queue and I think it would make sense to prioritise other
> things in transmagedon (like using the encodebin and the profiles). Of
> course its christians decision.

Just thought I'd mention that Arista is in the process of undergoing 
some UI changes based on user feedback I have gotten. The ultimate goal 
is to simplify the interface and lower confusion that people have 
emailed me about. Because of that the main dialog now looks like this:

http://programmer-art.org/dropbox/arista-new-ui.png

You'll notice the preset selection and queue are gone. The preset 
selection is now in a new dialog with a filterable list of presets that 
shows a little more preset information. The view of the queue is now 
completely gone. I'm not sure if I will add that back in, but you can 
create as many conversions as you want and they will run one after 
another with the progress bar telling you how many jobs are left. I'm 
considering a "cancel all" button and considering a queue dialog in the 
future, but would like to work on a few other things before then for the 
next release.

For those people that do want a queue - what is most important for you? 
Being able to run jobs one after another? Being able to prioritize jobs? 
Being able to reorder jobs? Being able to remove jobs?

Take care,
Daniel