Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Richard Berg]

I'm usually not slow with picking up UI idioms, but I just now figured out why it was so hard to click on items on the left (playing now, audio, playlists...).  When switching views I'd click and sometimes it would go, sometimes it took many tries, often correlating with expanding the '+' first...  Turns out, as you all must know, you have to click on the actual text!

If that's a conscious design choice, then you should use something other than an extended bar to indicate selection, since it implies that the blank space it fills is useable.  My preference of course would be for it to act like virtually every other vertical list in the Windows paradigm

[cascius]

Hi Richard, I just tested that and it seems to work fine on my version of MC. If you don't have the latest version you should probably upgrade as in the one I have (10.0.117) clicking the + sign does work.

-Cascius

[jj.oneil]

Not tested & may be totally wrong but does it depend on which skin you use?

JJ

[Richard Berg]

No, it is not dependent on skins.

Cascius, I think my explanation of the discovery process confused things.  I'm saying that clicking in either red circle won't move the focus, even though the column-width blue highlight implies that it should.



Interestingly enough, right-click works.

[cascius]

You're right Richard, I had misunderstood what you were saying. The way it currently works doesn't bother me but i guess it wouldn't hurt to be able to also click where you drew your circles.

JJ, it's not dependent on skins at all, i second that.

-Cascius

[Richard Berg]

It doesn't bother me /now/, but it's an unintuitive quirk in a generally well-designed GUI.

[Matt]

Thanks for the idea.  It'll be changed next build.