2009-08-13, 10:07
emagin Wrote:Hi there,
I just started using your latest version, hope these UI suggestions are useful to you.
Right now you have the movies/shows on left and buttons (actions) on each movie as buttons on top.
Each action (Editor Fanart etc.) opens a new window.
Would it make sense to just move all the actions into Tabs
Each tab allows editing of info/art and has a SAVE button bottom right in a consistent place to update the record
I find that I am constantly clicking on windows to open / close stuff to update one film. Over time this is a lot of clicking/time used up doing repetitive stuff.
If that is not an option, I would standardize the Save and Close actions
Each window seems to have its own layout and the positioning/graphic of the buttons is somewhat confusing (hard to read and placed funny, see below)
Editor - has Red X close window and Save Changes.
It's an EDIT action on THIS (current) film.
Fanart - has Red X and Save Selected. EDIT THIS film action
Posters has Red X Save Bid, Save Small (make radio button big/small and SAVE button). EDIT THIS film action
Rescrape Movie has no cancel X at top - this should be separated into different area, it's not an EDIT action of THIS film, it's really a REDO this film, which could confuse someone just clicking on the buttons and blow away their settings. Present new data, maybe side by side with old data and present OVERWRITE? option.
Scan Folders has cancel X at top - this is not an action on THIS film, but the entire folder/database. So this could be moved to another area of buttons for global actions. "Global" also could be defined, Global (really all), All Films, All Shows.
Options - Global settings, move into global area
HTML - Should be in left column associated with Films List (also unclear if you are doing this to ALL items, Films, or Shows...guess that can come later)
IMDB - Open Movie in imdb - this is an action on THIS film, it should be next to the THIS film actions, and maybe just be a tab as I suggest above. Much cleaner this way so you can just click on tabs and load the info each time they switch tabs, and have SAVE bottom right to update the film/show.
Paypal donate - this could be the starburst logo of Paypal which gets a bit more attention. I'm all in favor of supporting the cause!
Button Icons. I realize you are in beta mode so perhaps this will all come much later, but the buttons need to have more thought put into them.
Think in terms of Film Detail actions vs. Global actions (settings) vs. Entire Film / Show List actions.
FIlm List - Right now you offer right click to do same actions on Films.
If you went to tabs you could eliminate that as it would be much simpler to just click on the tabs for each action.
Hope this is of some use, I can elaborate with screenshots.
Can't seem to attach anything to this post, only URLs, I have GIFs here for you.
Sorry about the time delay in replying to this post. To be honest it is quite a lot to swallow, but i've been busy implementing some of your suggestions as I think you intended, some of the above coments are not clear.
Here is what I have come up with.
The main page
The Fanart
The Posters
The tabs other than main browser apply only to the selected movie. The other buttons in the tabs just behave as buttons, without opening a tabpage.
The "actor edit" is just a place holder until I figure out exactly what I need to put in the page, since most editing can be done from the main page I don't really need a full edit page. But I do need to add support for edit actors and change movie.
I'm still working on the posters page, but it gives you an idea of what I am looking for, I also intend to implement the crop feature on this page so that all functions related to the posters can be carried out on a single page.
HTML output has been relocated to the drop down movie menu, and once this is finished then it means that the only icons needed in the menu strip would be Settings(Global) and Donate(Global).
I've also added a comfirm dialogue to the "Rescrape Movie" button. I'm not sure this is really needed and people may think this is more of a pain than anything, but it will prevent new users overwriting their edited nfo files.
Feedback is always appreciated.