GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 729442
Building up play lists via drag and drop
Last modified: 2018-01-10 14:41:15 UTC
While playing around with Gnome Music I had some ideas I'd like to share with you: For me, building up play lists right now could be easier. I'd like to see the possibility to build up play list from any view. A possibility I'd like to see is if one drags a song or an album, the available play lists slide in from left and the user can drop the songs on the play list of choice, There should be also a '+'-button in the bottom area which enables to add the current song to a play list. When pressing on it a list of current play lists appears. It should be also possible to remove a song from play lists. So may be there should be check boxes in this list. So one could easily move songs via checking an unchecking.
Seems to be an interesting idea, Allan, any thoughts?
Status is set to "NEEDINFO". What exactly is needed?
(In reply to comment #2) > What exactly is needed? We'll have to redesign the UI to allow drag-n-drop on playlists, waiting for response from designer team
(In reply to comment #1) > Seems to be an interesting idea, Allan, any thoughts? The idea isn't a bad one. The question is how to make it work in practice: if a list of playlists slides in, it will end up obscuring the content below. That won't always be a problem, but it will be sometimes.
I was just thinking of something that could work pretty well without getting in the way (I'm not a playlist user, so I wouldn't really like invasive changes in this regard)... 1) The user clics and drags an album/a song/a selection/etc. 2) When dragging begins to occur, the user sees the playlist button turning red/green/blue/whatever. 3) The user drags the selection over the button 4) The user sees a popover popping underneath the button containing the playlist names (ordered by last used time) + a way to create a new playlist. 4) Once dropped, the user is sure the selection has been added to the playlist (seeing the wheel waiting stuff and finally a checkmark before fading). The discoverability is not the greatest, however this is already the kind of behavior you expect in Nautilus for instance. If the popover thing is too hard to implement, temporarily switching the view to the playlist one until the drop event could be another possibility.
What do you about if the playlist view opens up while dragging a song only a little bit. See attached file "Playlists.pdf"
Created attachment 329148 [details] Idea how to add songs to playlists.
I would like to work on this as i would love to get this feature! is there any mockup done by the design team?
Back in time I sketched my idea to that topic. Allan was not convinced because I think he thought the playlist would always over the songs while drag and drop (comment 4). My suggestion was that it opens just slightly to indicate that there is the playlist hidden. Maybe this solves his concerned.
comment #8 : I think there needs to be a solid design before any implementation should be attempted. This is more like an idea that needs work. With regards to the original mock-up, in artists view this would mean you would have 2 sidebars by the looks of it (one for the playlists, one for the artists). That seems sort of messy.
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