Re: gtkpod 2 ... heading towards releasing

On 21/12/10 16:21, Daniele Forsi wrote:
> 2010/12/20 phantomjinx:
>
>    
>>> The following strings start with 2 spaces, they are used in the View
>>> menu but they aren't aligned with the other strings, may I remove the
>>> leading spaces?
>>>
>>> _("  Edit Track Details")
>>> _("  Cover Browser")
>>> _("  Repository Information")
>>> _("  Track Filter")
>>> _("  Playlist Tracks")
>>> _("  iPod Photo Editor")
>>> _("  Media Player")
>>> _("  Edit iPod Repositories")
>>> _("  Cover Artwork")
>>> _("  iPod Repositories")
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> I inserted the spaces since the titles seemed too far over to the left of
>> the views.
>>      
> you are right, but this indents the labels in the menu.
>
> Some dialogs need small fixes, I think you can fix them faster than me ;-)
>
> "New Playlist" accepts an empty string as playlist name and it allows
> to create playlists with duplicated names; at least the empty name
> should be forbidden.
>
>    
Fixed.
> "Initialize iPod" accepts any string as mountpoint, even an empty
> string, and it doesn't check if it exists but creates it if it has
> permissions (if you give "foo" as mountpoint it creates a foo
> directory with iPod_Control and so on inside it); it should fail if
> the given mountpoint doesn't exist.
>
>    
Thinking on the lines of a libgpod function that can be called separately.
> Also in this Initialize dialog I see 3 empty submenus at the bottom of
> the list of iPod models, inside them I see iPhone 16GB xC603, iPod
> Touch xC540, 8 GB Nano xC525 and so on, is it a problem with my
> version of libgpod? If it's in libgpod, can gtkpod replace the empty
> string with something generic? Like "Other devices 1", "Other devices
> 2", ...
>
>    
Can up libgpod to 8. Although, that is too high for a lot of the current 
distros.
> And now for some menu shuffling... since Create iPod's Directories
> doesn't deal with tracks, it could be moved from Music to Tools and
> maybe some text added to the dialog to explain what happens to
> existing directories.
>    
Fixed.
> I have played with glade for a possible replacement of the "New
> Playlist" function activated with Ctrl+N (see the attached file), the
> various combinations of manual/auto would call the code for empty
> playlist, smart playlists, the other playlists (for which a new dialog
> would be needed) and possibly setting the checkboxes in the Playlist
> properties dock. What do you think?
>
>    
Not quite sure whether the auto/manual buttons are obvious enough for 
the user to understand. Also, additional dialogs popping up after one 
another imply a wizard so maybe that would be the preferred way to go?

PGR

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