Bugzilla – Bug 114349
Banshee menus are confusing
Last modified: 2005-10-30 19:16:25 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
Its maintained here. We done testing in our useability lab with it. moving to UI team.
"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.
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.
I think we can close this bug. The menus are much better now. Thanx. Daniel