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About suggestions and feature requests

Discuss suggestions and feature requests in the foo_ui_columns thread before posting them here. Include as much information as you can, post new suggestions in the unscreened section.

Note: These are only feature requests that may be implemented. The suggestions section is NOT a to-do list.

Suggestions and feature requests

Short term / 0.3.x

Suggestions

  • Different colours for frames of selection
  • Tab stack: Multi-line mode
  • Filter search toolbar
  • Media library search toolbar
  • Make size of separators configurable
  • Duplicate layout preset button
  • More flexibility regarding im/exporting layout presets
  • Various panels: Autocomplete for in-line metafield editing
NG Playlist
  • Globals support in group scripts
  • Tab-alignment support in group scripts
  • Some implementation of a rating columns
  • Collapsible groups
  • Support for group index / count accessibility in display scripts
  • Grouping presets, with possibility to select a preset on a per-playlist basis
  • Artwork on right side of playlist
Filter Panel
  • Multiple columns per panel
  • Info columns: Total size, total length, number of tracks, average rating, codec, folder path, date.
  • Option to ignore leading 'The' when sorting for display
  • Option to exclude tracks without the selected field from the 'All' item
  • Option to hide 'All' item
  • Option to hide column titles
  • Use sources other than media library (playlists, …)
  • Make it easier to re-autosend an entry when reactivating a Filter Panel
Item properties
  • Option to display all metadata
  • Display some other tech info fields
  • Option to hide the column titles
Playlist switcher
  • Sortable columns
  • Sorting via shortcut menu
  • Multiple selections
  • Possibility to create separate playlists when dropping multiple playlists or folders.
  • Grouping
Artwork
  • Possibility to specify sources of “Artist picture” type
Artwork view
  • Ability to zoom an image to: the source image size, …
  • Option to display placeholder image when no tracks are active
  • Fading between image changes
Album List Panel (separate component)
  • $swapprefix etc. functions for branched fields
  • Album List Panel: remember scroll position across foobar2000 instances
  • 'collapse children' action in item shortcut menu
Item details
  • Tab character support
Buttons toolbar
  • Group multiple commands into drop-down button
  • State indications for some standard foobar2000 commands
  • Vertical and wrapping options

Known issues

  • Incompleteness of live editing
  • Filter Panel does not save field list to FCL file
  • Issues scrolling system focus rectangle in Columns Playlist and NG Playlist
  • Auto-hiding splitters don't mix with drag and drop
  • Album list panel: hiding filter box doesn't reset the active filter query

General suggestions

add vista glass option

make width of the separators configurable or at least > 2

add snapping between separators?

add "cross"/"matrix"-type splitter?

Customisable playlist view tooltips

Toolbars at bottom of window

Inserting images into playlist alongside text (useful for adding graphical stars for rating, consider adding to short-term todo list)

Changing the boldness/italicness of text from the formatting string

%_column_index%

Button down images for playback buttons

Drop several folders as several playlists

Changing the colour of the sorted column

Completely customisable playback buttons padding

Make scrollbars optional in playlist view

make vis colours more configurable

Have the ability to define different colours for the bars in the default vis for columns UI.

Meaning being able to split the bars into either two or three sections (both options would be nice) and assign different colors to those sections, i.e., one color for the bottom section and one for the top section. Bars should be divided according to window height.

Ability to use gradients for the bars could be really neat as well.

Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab to switch between tabs (standard windows behaviour)

Alt+Backspace / Alt+Shift+Backspace - undo/redo in edit controls (standard windows behaviour)

Better feedback for drag and drop

  • Select playlist in playlist switcher panel when dropping on that playlist in the panel
  • Show deny icon when dropping in/on locked playlists

Customisable spectrum analyser FPS

Customisable tooltip text in custom buttons

Customisable bitmaps for different button states

E.g. for play/pause button

Ability for flat main menu

have more than one columns playlist

   eg. columns playlist a| column playlist b instead of what happens now when u add another playlist columns playlist a| column playlist a

New (unscreened) suggestions

support the windows relative path for the bmp of "customise buttons"!!

eg. %userprofil%\ or %windir%\ …..

Lock splitters for sizing

To avoid panel sizes from being changed accidentally (different from the current lock, which just keep the size when foobar is resized)

Transparent Album List Panel

Make the background of Album List Panel invisible so background artwork can show through.

Option fb window hide titlebar

Make the Option hide and show titlebar.

Rejected feature requests

These features will never be implemented:

Standard menu

serves no purpose, toolbar menu works fine

Applying status bar font to entire status bar

This occurs because common controls version 6 will use the font specified in the current theme instead (if one is specified).

Possibility for variables in string scripts to persist through multiple executions

( useful in not displayig redundant information in albums…)

I dont think this will work in any nice way. — musicmusic 2005/04/01 14:13

Perform actions with checkboxes

Check boxes in playlist beside each track to select certain tracks in a long playlist and perform actions on them (like in itunes).

reason: no different to using selections, etc.

Export fcs file to xml file

  • For easy editing

make button configuration dialog smaller, so that it fits on a 800x600 screen

Hide selection frame

Customisable selection frame for each column

Global "extensions" for global string

columns_ui/requests/requests_list.1234132823.txt.gz · Last modified: 2009/02/08 22:40 by musicmusic