[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] macosx: create playlist columns at runtime instead of relying on the nib file

[David Fuhrmann]

Hi,

Am 30.05.2012 um 13:46 schrieb Felix Paul Kühne:

> Hi David,
> 
> Thanks for the feedback!
> 
> On 30.05.2012, at 09:48, David Fuhrmann <david.fuhrmann at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> You can remove and hide them
>>> on-the-fly using the Playback menu, since no View menu exists so far.
>> 
>> Hmm IMHO its not so nice to enlarge this menu even further. Perhaps we can find a better place for these items eventually.
> Yes, I'm seriously thinking about adding a "View" menu to provide a more reasonable home for last 3 menu items recently added to the Playback menu.
> We could also add a quick way to switch between embedded and non-embedded video output mode as well as shortcuts to hide the sidebar and possibly even the drop zone. All of these were requested quite a bit.

That sounds sensible. In the end, the user will not change these things so often, but the menu seems a better place to me than prefs (especially for the three existing items). 
I'm just consider if it would make sense to also move / add some video related things into this menu like fullscreen or always on top (but then these items should be also persistently (always open in fullscreen and make everything "always on top"))?

> 
> 
>> We could also add a context menu when clicking on the playlist header (as its done in finder).
> I wasn't aware of this feature after 11 years of using the Finder. It's definitely a nifty place, but may not be that easy to find. Duplicating the UI in this additional context would make sense IMO.

Yeah, its a nice place. I saw that in finder and also in iTunes, in both applications I have not found any other place where you could change these settings (or did I overlooked something?). But of course it does not harm if its duplicated in the menu and more user find it, probably.

Best regards,
David