Now i've got my brain thinking a bit and may start rambling on.
But here goes...
If you had different tile templates to choose from, wouldn't that really become your view scheme? What I mean is all the view scheme would do is control the sort order of the tiles and limit what files are part of the list. Everything else is controlled by the tile.
So the point is that the tiles need to have almost as much flexibility as the view schemes do in order to be useful.I'm sure you J River folks have discussed this but from a usability point of view the tiles add a layer of complexity that not everyone will appreciate. Now MC has so many different ways to get at the data that it can be overwhelming (of course that's why some of us love it so much).
Just to list what I am talking about:
Standard Tree View - Familiar but cumbersome
Media Modes - acts as a global filter
View Schemes - Powerful but complex
Panes - intuitive
Search - powerful
Smartlist - really a saved search
Playlist - saved list of related files
Detail view - spreadsheet style list
Thumbnails - easy to navigate for certain file types
Tile - excellent snapshot of data, needs more work
I'm sure there are some things that I am missing but I don't have MC on this machine.
Not exactly sure what my point here is, except that it is all very overwhelming to a new user (and sometimes to not so new users
) that I wonder if there is a clearer way to get at all of this power. Some sort of tutorial or similar.
Is there a way that you could inlcude a bunch of 'sample' views, similar to the sample smartlists that are included? Maybe they could be added as a MC component when a user wanted to learn more....
I don't know, just trying to brainstorm.....