Hi Mixxx developers
During the review of the library redesign branch, we discovered a design
issue about how to select where a track table of a feature is shown.
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/991
Basically there are two valid requirements that at somehow incompatible.
1. A feature track table should re-appear where it was before. It turns out
in live test, that undesired panes swapping is annoying, especially late at
night.
2. User expect, that a track table appears in the focused pane. This allows
to intuitive arrange the desired panes side by side. It is a known paradigm
from two panes file manager like Nemo.
In the current implementation we have tried to predict what is the best
behaviour. Unfortunately it suffers some pending issues. And even if they
are solved, it will remain confusing that the same action does different
things, depending on the context.
What could be a solution?
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The discussed Idea.
For me it is important that the Auto DJ tracklist appears on the right pane
after a single click on the library button.
The library view should always left.
Other pane associations should be freely selectable.
Let's add a pin button to the right pane (in fact to all n+1 panes)
This way, by default Mixxx works like known from other Apps (2.) Following
the focus.
In my use case, I can open the Auto DJ in the right pane and pin it.
>From now library panes ... will all appear left. If I need an other side by
side view
I can release the pin.
This does not fullfil pure (1.) but seams to be a good compromise using I
known paradigm.
What do you think?
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