Pro-Q 4 - Improved Accessibility for Opening and Closing the Instance List
Hi,
Presently, to enter the Instance List, a user would click the "open Instance List" button, which is located at the bottom of the Pro-Q 4 plugin.
To exit the Instance List view, the user then has to click the close Instance List button '❌', located at the top-right of the plugin window.
While the user is within Instance List view, the "close Instance List" button '❌' becomes visible and in doing so, also temporarily displaces (i.e. shifts the position) of the "Full Screen" button, over to the left of the "close Instance List" '❌' button.
When the user exits the Instance List, the button they pressed to do so (the "close Instance List" button '❌' ) also disappears and is replaced once again positionally by the Full Screen button (located at the top-right hand side of the plugin).
To improve this overall workflow and to help make accessing the Instance List feel more intuitive, efficient and consistent, I propose implementing the following adjustments.
IMPROVED OPEN/CLOSE INSTANCE LIST "TOGGLE":
Rather than the top-right "close Instance List" button '❌' disappearing from the UI, when outside of Instance List view. I propose changing that same "close Instance List" button '❌', instead into a permanent "toggle" button, allowing users to both "Open or Close" the Instance List quickly from the same button location, dependent upon whether the user is currently in or out of Instance List view.
Note: this would be an additional (and more streamlined) method for entering/exiting the Instance List view than at present.
Users could of course still also continue to use the current button located at the bottom of the UI, to enter the Instance List, whenever they prefer.
Summary:
#1 - Please add a permanent "toggle" button to the top-right of the plugin UI - allowing users to quickly open/close Instance View within the same button position and location
This is primarily to help eliminate unnecessary mouse zig-zagging between the top to the bottom of the plugin UI, whenever opening/closing the Instance List.
#2 - For further workflow consistency, and to avoid displacing the fixed position of the existing "Full Screen" button, I propose placing the permanent "Instance List toggle" button just to the left of the existing "Full Screen" button (located at the top-right of the UI).
Keeping the order of the "Full Screen button" always located at the furthest top-right position so that it doesn't switch places back-and-forth with the "Instance View toggle" - would help keep consistency visually with all the other FabFilter plugins that support the Full Screen feature.
I hope you can see the merit and accessibility/workflow benefits to making these relatively small improvements to the current UI and will consider implementing these within a future update.
Hi,
Presently, to enter the Instance List, a user would click the "open Instance List" button, which is located at the bottom of the Pro-Q 4 plugin.
To exit the Instance List view, the user then has to click the close Instance List button '❌', located at the top-right of the plugin window.
While the user is within Instance List view, the "close Instance List" button '❌' becomes visible and in doing so, also temporarily displaces (i.e. shifts the position) of the "Full Screen" button, over to the left of the "close Instance List" '❌' button.
When the user exits the Instance List, the button they pressed to do so (the "close Instance List" button '❌' ) also disappears and is replaced once again positionally by the Full Screen button (located at the top-right hand side of the plugin).
To improve this overall workflow and to help make accessing the Instance List feel more intuitive, efficient and consistent, I propose implementing the following adjustments.
IMPROVED OPEN/CLOSE INSTANCE LIST "TOGGLE":
Rather than the top-right "close Instance List" button '❌' disappearing from the UI, when outside of Instance List view. I propose changing that same "close Instance List" button '❌', instead into a permanent "toggle" button, allowing users to both "Open or Close" the Instance List quickly from the same button location, dependent upon whether the user is currently in or out of Instance List view.
Note: this would be an additional (and more streamlined) method for entering/exiting the Instance List view than at present.
Users could of course still also continue to use the current button located at the bottom of the UI, to enter the Instance List, whenever they prefer.
Summary:
#1 - Please add a permanent "toggle" button to the top-right of the plugin UI - allowing users to quickly open/close Instance View within the same button position and location
This is primarily to help eliminate unnecessary mouse zig-zagging between the top to the bottom of the plugin UI, whenever opening/closing the Instance List.
#2 - For further workflow consistency, and to avoid displacing the fixed position of the existing "Full Screen" button, I propose placing the permanent "Instance List toggle" button just to the left of the existing "Full Screen" button (located at the top-right of the UI).
Keeping the order of the "Full Screen button" always located at the furthest top-right position so that it doesn't switch places back-and-forth with the "Instance View toggle" - would help keep consistency visually with all the other FabFilter plugins that support the Full Screen feature.
I hope you can see the merit and accessibility/workflow benefits to making these relatively small improvements to the current UI and will consider implementing these within a future update.
Thank you