by Barry4679 » Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:15 am
Here are a further two situations where the Column Browser is not properly integrated into the MM5 UI.
1. Steps:
- Open a collection for the 1st time ... or open it, and then initialise it's state, by opening a couple of sub-nodes, and making sure that the Column Browser is turned off
- open a sub-node, say Album, go to Grid mode
- open Column Browser, and set a filter, say Genre>AlbumArtist>Album, so filtered to 1 album
- switch to List (by album) view
- ==> context lost ... no filter ... unexpected, all I did was change View ... you destroyed my context
And this behaviour is inconsistent ... if, when the List (by album) view was last opened, the Column Browser was active, the result would have been different.
2. Steps:
- Open a collection, setup Column Browser ... filter to something
- Change to another sub-node within the same collection
- ==> context lost ... no filter ... disappointed, and (somewhat) unexpected ... I did change sub-nodes, but this is within the same tab, and the same collection ... I would have preferred that you maintain my context... ie. Column Browser on|off, same configuration, and same filter values
- you always destroy context when I (re)open a sub-node ... ie. not only you destroy context as described above, you don't even retain the context from when I last visited the sub-node ... ie. be in List View .. chose a track .. toggle to a different sub-node in the collection, then come back ==> previous track selection is lost
- I don't think that it is helpful to always destroy context when switching sub-nodes within a collection ... my preference would be that you maintained the context of the sibling sub-node that I am switching from ... ie. only initialise fresh context, when I open a fresh collection
Here are a further two situations where the Column Browser is not properly integrated into the MM5 UI.
1. Steps:
[list]Open a collection for the 1st time ... or open it, and then initialise it's state, by opening a couple of sub-nodes, and making sure that the Column Browser is turned off[/list]
[list]open a sub-node, say Album, go to Grid mode[/list]
[list]open Column Browser, and set a filter, say Genre>AlbumArtist>Album, so filtered to 1 album[/list]
[list]switch to List (by album) view[/list]
[list]==> context lost ... no filter ... unexpected, all I did was change View ... you destroyed my context[/list]
And this behaviour is inconsistent ... if, when the List (by album) view was last opened, the Column Browser was active, the result would have been different.
2. Steps:
[list]Open a collection, setup Column Browser ... filter to something[/list]
[list]Change to another sub-node within the same collection[/list]
[list]==> context lost ... no filter ... disappointed, and (somewhat) unexpected ... I did change sub-nodes, but this is within the same tab, and the same collection ... I would have preferred that you maintain my context... ie. Column Browser on|off, same configuration, and same filter values [list]you always destroy context when I (re)open a sub-node ... ie. not only you destroy context as described above, you don't even retain the context from when I last visited the sub-node ... ie. be in List View .. chose a track .. toggle to a different sub-node in the collection, then come back ==> previous track selection is lost[/list]
[list]I don't think that it is helpful to always destroy context when switching sub-nodes within a collection ... my preference would be that you maintained the context of the sibling sub-node that I am switching from ... ie. only initialise fresh context, when I open a fresh collection[/list]
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