[mb-users] "Edit All" - Is it problematic to understand?

Mika Heiska kilualmighty at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 12:54:34 UTC 2006


My biggest problem with the edit all is that when artist changing is 
enabled, the amount of elements makes the screen scroll sideways. I'm 
using 1024x768 and have sidebar menu enabled. If I hide the sidebar, the 
elements fits in. However, toggling the menu I use very often is not the 
ideal way to get past this. And as I understand, 1024x768 is the most 
used resolution currently.

In the way I do things, the Guess Both button seems quite redundant to 
me. I just Guess All, and then edit manually the stuff that needs 
further adjustment. I realize that artist name isn't affected by the 
Guess All, but as I generally just copy/paste the artist from MB itself 
(eg, open a new MB tab with the artist), I don't need it to. Which leads 
to redundancy of Guess Both button.

If it would be possible to disable elements entirely per user config, I 
would be a happy man. Because everything else in the Edit All page is 
pretty good as far as I'm concerned. I mean, sure it's a bit confusing 
at first to have checkboxes in the same column with two different 
functions, and I'm sure someone will figure a better way to present the 
same info in a less confusing way, but to me it's not a pressing matter.

Only other thing that comes to mind is the minor thing I mentioned in 
the ticket about release events, that there is no indication of which 
input box is for year, month and day. Anyone with less MB experience 
will just have to guess the right order. If the boxes were filled with 
yyyy, mm, dd (much like the Moderation Note box is) by default, would be 
helpful.


~Kilu



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