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Title: Three-tiered layout
Post by: benn600 on September 09, 2009, 12:10:56 pm
Is there any chance the three-tiered layout of audio, images, video can be brought back or enabled?  I sincerely miss it!  Would be great to offer two rows of 3 buttons.  Why not the ability to keep playlists expanded at all times then as well--plenty of room at that point!
Title: Re: Three-tiered layout
Post by: tjobbins on September 12, 2009, 09:11:47 pm
Is there any chance the three-tiered layout of audio, images, video can be brought back or enabled?  I sincerely miss it!  Would be great to offer two rows of 3 buttons.  Why not the ability to keep playlists expanded at all times then as well--plenty of room at that point!

If any change is made it should definitely be configurable.  I think I prefer them off personally, but the option to have them on or off would be the best option for all.

Actually, what would be ideal is if each view scheme had two options:

This would mean that one could configure some or all view schemes to have icons.  To get the <MC14 behaviour, one would configure the Audio, Video and Image view schemes as Show Icon = Y and choose the appropriate preset under Icon to Use.  But one could then also configure icon for one's own root view schemes: either using the preset icons (and more presets could be added), or browsing for an icon file to be used.    It's also possible to choose whether the label is displays, so you could just have the audio icon without the word 'Audio'.

Then MC would display any view schemes with icons at the top, in the tabular form as used for Audio/Video/Image before MC14.  MC would allow multiple rows, so if more than 3 are configured, it would create a second row of icons.

It would also then be nice to have a couple of options to control how MC displays the left pane.  e.g.:
  etc

I don't feel hugely strongly about this feature myself, but I would customise the left pane if these sort of options were available.
Title: Re: Three-tiered layout
Post by: benn600 on September 13, 2009, 01:35:14 am
All this customization would be powerful but even I think a bit overkill.  How about a checkbox to enable 3-tier layout for audio/images/video.  Although the ability to add a 4th might be compelling (custom).