| Summary: | [PATCH] queue tracks from collection browser | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] amarok | Reporter: | Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide> |
| Component: | Collection Browser | Assignee: | Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | andy2.0, chinmaykamat, domlyons, leinir, mail, matej, ralf-engels, skywalker_99, stuffcorpse, tripod |
| Priority: | NOR | Flags: | myriam:
Decision-Required+
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| Version: | 2.6-git | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Adds the queue option back to the collection browser right click menu. | ||
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Description
Caleb Cushing
2009-05-16 13:56:34 UTC
This was an intentional change made by the team after the usability study revealed some 'interesting' results. Personally, I call bullshit on the fact that a user cannot distinguish between "append", "replace" and "queue" in playlist. Personally, I'd like the functionality back too - since I used it all the time. personally I'd rather have queue than append... but the usability study is BS. alienating your experienced long term users is not a good idea. if it confuses a few new users slightly... that's fine... but I doubt it confused them so much that it validates making my life harder. Hell, if you don't want it always enabled then lets create an expert mode... @Caleb: don't take this personally - but just keep in mind that you are no more qualified to make assessments about usability of a product based solely on your use case habits. you know what? you're right. I just realized 6 people besides me who cared about this feature... you me, and 1 person cc-ed to this bug and the 4 on bug 171939 (who might be fine with this functionality) cc-ed to that one. that's really not enough to make this worth bringing back. Keep in mind that this feature removal hasn't gone public yet, and that I am a core Amarok developer. Keep in mind, also, that i did not add myself, but was added by Lydia because she thought it might be interesting to me. So, nice jumping to conclusions there ;) I would just like to throw in my vote here too; find I am often having to do the double step of appending to the playlist, then scrolling down to the bottom to right-click again and queue. In fact, I honestly don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that 99% of the time I want to queue tracks from the collection rather than append - saved playlists I tend to append though, but I also frequently want to queue single tracks from saved playlists. Really surprised that this was a concious decision - conceptually right clicking on a track should enable you to perform the same functions on it regardless of where it is - a track is just a track whether its in the collection, or in a previously saved playlist. Of course there could be a certain contextual basis for example something like "remove from playlist" or "remove from collection". The fact that you can queue other tracks from the album that the currently playing track is on, doesn't make sense then either as these tracks are essentially just in the collection too. (and now that I've pointed that out, please don't remove it to hahaha) *** Bug 197567 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I miss this function, too. Maybe it's possible to make the difference between queue und playlist clear by icons that are not too easy to mix up. *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** maybe instead of queue and append they should be labeled in simpler words. like "play song next" "add to playlist" Created attachment 36935 [details]
Adds the queue option back to the collection browser right click menu.
I'm also interested in getting this functionality back (naturally, flying in the face of the usability study ;-). Here's a patch that does it, if anyone is interested.
*sigh* I was hoping to get this back in 2.2... FWIW, we've just merged a patch that adds entries from the collection to the playlist if you middle-click. It's not quite the same, but I find it very convenient :) See here: BUG 197423 OK, moving this to the bugs list. If there is a Queue Track option in the Playlist, it should definitely also be in the Collection Browser, everything else doesn't make much sense. Tycho, could you please make a merge request on http://gitorious.org/amarok/amarok ? Any progress with this bug? We are currently in feature freeze, so this has to wait. *** Bug 256589 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Bumping version Does this patch still aplly? If yes, please submit it to http://reviewboard.git.org. You will need an identity on http://identity.kde.org. Please submit this ASAP as we enter feature freeze on July 3rd. Seems to be a wish. Patches should go to reviewboard as Myriam indicated (where they can be properly commented on and reviewed) |