Yes, that's the other issue. Do you have an idea how to fix it? An pin Icon for the tree view pane?
Am 15.08.2016 um 22:04 schrieb Be: > We also have the related question of how to control which feature's left > pane appears. It seems there are two design goals: > > 1. Dragging a track from a right pane to a different feature's left pane > should be easy. The most prominent use case for this is sorting many > tracks into many crates. > 2. Selecting the left pane for a feature with an open right pane should > be easy. An example use case is having Library and Auto DJ both open > with the Library tree on the left. It should be easy to access the Auto > DJ controls in Auto DJ's left pane from this situation. > > Currently, the most obvious way for a user to drag a track from a right > pane to a different feature's left pane (#1) is: > * Click the feature icon corresponding to the right pane with the > desired item to drag (for example, a track in Library). > * Focus the other right pane. > * Click the feature icon that has the left pane with desired drop target > (for example, a crate in the Crates tree). This has the side effect of > opening the feature's right pane as well. > * Drag and drop easily between left & right. > * When a different left pane is desired, click the corresponding feature > icon. > > This works well for design goal #1 but does not accomplish design goal > #2. The most intuitive way to accomplish design goal #2 would be to open > the left pane for a feature when its corresponding right pane is > focused. Currently, users must click the feature icon for the feature > with the left pane they want to access. > > This creates a confusing situation because clicking the feature icons > has two different purposes: opening a left & right pane for a feature > that is not open, plus opening a left pane for a feature that already > has a right pane open. This is especially a problem for unstickied > features (currently only Crates and Playlists) because the user has to > be careful to focus the right pane that already has that feature open > before clicking the feature icon. Otherwise, clicking the feature icon > will open the desired left pane but also open the undesired right pane > where the focus currently is, hiding a right feature pane the user may > have wanted to keep open. > > However, the obvious way for accomplishing design goal #2 (opening the > left pane for a feature when its right pane is focused) would make the > steps outlined above for design goal #1 impossible. There already is > another way to drag & drop many tracks between many crates (#1) though: > > * Click the feature icon corresponding to the right pane with the > desired item to drag (for example, a track in Library). > * Drag a track from the right pane > * Hover cursor over feature icon for the feature that has the left pane > with the desired drop target (for example, Crates list) > * Desired left pane opens, mouse can be released onto drop target > > If the user clicks again on a new item in the right pane, the left pane > that opened by hovering the cursor for the first drag & drop operation > stays open. The focus has not shifted between the two right panes. This > makes it easy to do many more drag & drop operations without having to > hover over a feature icon every time. The problem is that this is not > easily discoverable. However, I doubt this is something that many users > will want to do live or even every day. So, I think it will be okay as > long as this way of dragging & dropping many tracks is documented in the > manual. > > 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? >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic >> patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are >> consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, >> J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. 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