Bug 114349

Summary:	Banshee menus are confusing
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Daniel Secareanu <dsecareanu>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	Anna Dirks <anna>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	All
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Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Daniel Secareanu 2005-08-31 08:07:55 UTC

Banshee menus are all done in a very un-intuitive way.

Music -> Import Folder, Import Files, Playlist (submenu), Properties, Quit
Playlist (submenu) -> New Playlist, New Smart Playlist, Properties, Remove
Edit -> Rename Playlist, Remove Songs, Delete Playlist, Select All/None, Preferences

1. Playlist actions are scattered among several main menus/submenus, they should
all be grouped unde the same Playlist menu and include all actions related to
playlists and songs in there (New [Smart] Playlist, Rename Playlist, Delete
Playlist, Select All/None, Import Folder/Files, Remove Songs, Song Properties,
Preferences, etc.) - or Playlist and Music could be split into Playlist Actions
and Music Actions...

2. Properties/Preferences are scattered in the same way, they should probably be
all grouped under the general Preferences menu option and be addressed in tabs
in there.

Now I dunno if Banshee is maintained by anyone from Novell/SUSE, but maybe you
guys can submit these upstream to the application developers, since this is the
first time I see this app included in the SUSE packages.

Thanx.

Daniel

Comment 1 JP Rosevear 2005-08-31 13:12:06 UTC

Its maintained here.  We done testing in our useability lab with it.  moving to
UI team.

Comment 2 Mark Gordon 2005-08-31 14:59:30 UTC

"Preferences" is for the application as a whole.  "Music->Properties" is for the
currently selected track, if any.  "Music->Playlist->Properties" currently does
nothing, and the analogous context menu for playlists is currently disabled.

Comment 3 Aaron Bockover 2005-09-03 07:42:01 UTC

I've cleaned up all the context and main menus, removing items that are no
longer necessary (All of Music->Playlist is pretty much unnecessary), or making
items that don't make sense with the current context be invisible.

Comment 4 Daniel Secareanu 2005-10-30 19:16:25 UTC

I think we can close this bug. The menus are much better now.

Thanx.

Daniel