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We now show the artist comment and sort name on hover. What more needs to be done here? Is it not possible to display them everywhere on the site, consistently? From a usability perspective I find it very confusing trying to know which places it's in the hover, which places it should be displayed as text and which places it's just missing. For places with space limitations perhaps we can agree a length to display before a ...? Something like (US hip hop artist from Ver...) where you can see the full version in a tooltip? A side issue to this is having some way of easily seeing whether text displayed for an artist is an artist credit that is != the "native" artist name so you can easily spot places using artist credits. Perhaps some sort of little icon we could invent? It gets difficult with artist credits because the join phrase and the disambiguation comments are plain text, not hyperlinks. This means that "Artist (comment) join phrase Artist (comment)" is a little bit more confusing. I like the idea of truncation, but I'm not sure how well in practice it would work.
This has come up before, and people like the way Discogs uses an asterisk - we could copy that. Some the issues described here were due to bugs in the release editor and javascript artist credit code, these bugs have been fixed in commit b429947e77d25a35df08ec2b9b85d83c1f669be4. For the larger problem of this not being done consistently throughout the site, that is not currently actionable for a developer. I've therefore marked this ticket as "Decision Required". It's not actionable for a developer to spend time ensuring the UI is consistent? no, if things on screen A look different from things on screen B, and they should look the same. should screen B be changed to match screen A, or should screen A be changed to match screen B, or do we need to merge the UI from screen A and B in some fashion? Or, to make it more concrete: Apparently showing these details as hover isn't good enough, but in all places where an artist credit is rendered that seems to be the only way to render that information without breaking the artist credit. I don't have a solution to this problem. Someone needs to come up with a solution. If there is no clear solution someone needs to come up with a few mockups with various alternatives so the community can pick one. I've considered extending the hover concept with like either http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#tooltips This decision required ticket was discussed in the dev meeting yesterday: http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz-devel/2012/2012-07/2012-07-23.html#T19-17-04-313982 voiceinsideyou, can you enumerate exactly which screens will need changing? afterward, please assign the ticket to Pavan. |
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Improvement
Decision Required
Normal
Usability: Artist disambiguation comments not displayed in either release view or release editor (neither on mouseover)
Decided by http://scheduling.ocharles.org.uk/results
and in http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz-devel/2011/2011-12/2011-12-05.html