new feature idea: GUI/skin paging

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Reported by: rawrr
Date: 2016-03-24T20:49:17Z
Status: Confirmed
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp1561730
Tags: gui, skin

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The skins are getting as full of controls as we can make them; with the new FX array added to the samplers, and now the option of four decks, there is less and less leeway. especially for smaller screens and especially for aesthetics. Elegance becomes difficult when the screen is just a mass of widgets practically touching each other.

What I propose is "slide out" pages that emerge when the mouse stays at the edge of the screen for a configurable amount of time. This is a common feature of Android and various web applications. I believe Tumblr uses it and the Lightning browser for Android uses it, though the idea goes as far back as taskbar hiding in various desktop environments/shells.

The one hitch I foresee is what to do when Mixxx isn't in fullscreen mode, but a clickable tab should suffice. It would also be nice to allow the cursor to sense the edge of the window so that if reaching that vertice from the inside, it could trigger the drawer/panel even without that vertice being flush with the monitor edge.

Should I submit this as a blueprint, or is this adequate?

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2016-03-24T23:03:47Z

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It is OK for me to track the idea here.
Am 24.03.2016 9:55 nachm. schrieb "RAWRR" <email address hidden>:

Public bug reported:

The skins are getting as full of controls as we can make them; with the
new FX array added to the samplers, and now the option of four decks,
there is less and less leeway. especially for smaller screens and
especially for aesthetics. Elegance becomes difficult when the screen is
just a mass of widgets practically touching each other.

What I propose is "slide out" pages that emerge when the mouse stays at
the edge of the screen for a configurable amount of time. This is a
common feature of Android and various web applications. I believe Tumblr
uses it and the Lightning browser for Android uses it, though the idea
goes as far back as taskbar hiding in various desktop
environments/shells.

The one hitch I foresee is what to do when Mixxx isn't in fullscreen
mode, but a clickable tab should suffice. It would also be nice to allow
the cursor to sense the edge of the window so that if reaching that
vertice from the inside, it could trigger the drawer/panel even without
that vertice being flush with the monitor edge.

Should I submit this as a blueprint, or is this adequate?

** Affects: mixxx
Importance: Undecided
Status: New

** Tags: feature gui wishlist

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Title:
new feature idea: GUI/skin paging

Status in Mixxx:
New

Bug description:
The skins are getting as full of controls as we can make them; with
the new FX array added to the samplers, and now the option of four
decks, there is less and less leeway. especially for smaller screens
and especially for aesthetics. Elegance becomes difficult when the
screen is just a mass of widgets practically touching each other.

What I propose is "slide out" pages that emerge when the mouse stays
at the edge of the screen for a configurable amount of time. This is a
common feature of Android and various web applications. I believe
Tumblr uses it and the Lightning browser for Android uses it, though
the idea goes as far back as taskbar hiding in various desktop
environments/shells.

The one hitch I foresee is what to do when Mixxx isn't in fullscreen
mode, but a clickable tab should suffice. It would also be nice to
allow the cursor to sense the edge of the window so that if reaching
that vertice from the inside, it could trigger the drawer/panel even
without that vertice being flush with the monitor edge.

Should I submit this as a blueprint, or is this adequate?

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Commented by: esbrandt
Date: 2016-03-26T07:08:15Z

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The request for adding widgets reacting on mouse over is tracked @ lp:1419949.
My understanding is that your request requires basically these kind of widget.

Implanting hidden widgets requires some planning though, not all that works for touch-enabled devices works for desktop. See hot corners / charms bar controversy in Window 8/10.

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Commented by: rawrr
Date: 2016-03-26T18:36:47Z

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By "works" I'm guessing you mean "people will like it" (rather than technically). In windowed mode, I could see it might, possibly, be awkward for some people, in which case (meaning specifically and only when the window is not fullscreen) perhaps margin sensitivity should be switched off and a button should appear instead. In fullscreen mode, especially with user-configurable delays to suit various ideals for momentum etc.,. I think it would be intuitive.

I also think it may be worth pointing out that the controversy you allude to is over a new desktop for a general purpose operating system that explicitly caters to people who aren't necessarily comfortable with computers in the first place. I'm not sure that kind of crowd is the best representation of Mixxx's target demograpic range, even at its most broad.

Anyway, yeah this seems to be a subdivision of Owen's feature. I'll link this bug there.

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Commented by: rawrr
Date: 2016-03-26T18:43:14Z

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And as I alluded to in the introductory description above, taskbar hiding is a popular and much-used feature that goes all of the way back to at least Windows 98, and has been included in most other major desktop environments since its introduction as a thing. People do like menus to appear from margins on mouseover.