Bugzilla – Bug 14202
Control Panel UI design needs to be conformed across Windows and Mac OS
Last modified: 2016-11-27 21:00:41 UTC
There are still some gross differences between the CP in MacOS and the CP in Windows. I'm not sure which is closer to the intended design, but i suspect the Mac CP is closer. (the Windows CP still has a software update button that was removed from the Mac CP.)
Dan - good catch. Please add any other difference you find to this bug. I know that eg. the failsafe mode is still missing from OSX (bug 12041)
No problem. * All the tab names are different * Rescan options are on "Status" tab on Mac, while on "Music Library" tab on Win * There's no "Verify Password" button on "Account Settings" tab on Win * There's a "Software Updates" section on "Advanced" tab on Win; none on Mac That's what I see with a quick inspection.
> * All the tab names are different Oh wow... crap. I'm sorry about that... I'll fix the most obvious asap.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #28624 to the slim repo by michael == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/slim?view=revision&revision=28624 == Bug: 14202 Description: unify control panel labels on Windows and OSX
Ok, I've fixed the tab labels for 7.4.0. The remaining issues have to wait, as they require code changes. I think I mostly need to sync up the Windows panel with the OSX PrefPane, as the latter got more attention from Matt. What I've seen so far: - Windows: remove the "Update software" section, replace with messageing similar to OSX PrefPane - Windows: move scan options to advanced - Windows: add library stats to Status page - OSX: add option to start in failsafe mode (covered in bug 12041) As for the lack of the "Verify Password" button: there's a difference in how OSX and Windows treat settings dialogs. On OSX they're saved immediately. On Windows it's triggered when applying or saving the window's content. In that latter case it's easy to do the validation at this point. On OSX validating whenever you change the content might lead to irritating messages if you eg. leave the field to verify something in some other application. Therefor we added that button.
wild guess as Matt wanted to review the panels for more cleaning up
I'm sorry, applying new targeting guidelines