On 08/15/2016 02:53 PM, Daniel Schürmann wrote:
> I have thought about such sticky, or favorite pan feature. The issue her
> is that you cannot see what will happen before you click on a feature
> button.

What if small icon is displayed next to a feature icon that has sticky 
activated in addition to showing the icon on the right pane?

> A pin feature, where the pane feature using the pined pane cannot be
> changed does not suffer that. The icon should be similar to this:
> https://goo.gl/images/DffRHn

True, and an icon like that would represent such a feature well.

> I know that this does not fullfil my original requirement. It is less
> smart, end requires some more clicks for some use cases but at least
> they are there. The big atwantage is, it is easy to understand. I have
> learned from our discussion that this is more important.

Yes, it would be easy to understand. I'm not sure if my above suggestion 
of adding a small sticky icon by the feature icon would be easy to 
understand.

> Am 15.08.2016 7:34 nachm. schrieb "Be" <b...@gmx.com <mailto:b...@gmx.com>>:
>>
>> As discussed on GitHub, "pin" implies that the pane cannot be switched.
>> Perhaps "sticky" would be a better name for the feature. I think leaving
>> it to users to explicitly define their personal preference for what
>> features should be stickied in which right pane side would be a good
>> solution. This would have an advantage over the current behavior by
>> letting users choose which features they think should be stickied rather
>> than having a predefined list of features (currently all except Crates
>> and Playlists). What could be a good icon to represent this? A sticky
>> note? Bookmark?
>>
>> On 08/15/2016 11:55 AM, Daniel Schürmann wrote:
>> > 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?
>> >
>> > -------
>> >
>> > 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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