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Purple Rain
Table of contents
- 1. Stories & Tasks
- 1.1. Priorities
- 1.1.1. Create the base Feather
- 1.1.2. The new faceplate
- 1.1.3. Display pane control & management
- 1.1.4. Media View selection controls/widget
- 1.1.5. New Servicepane
- 1.1.6. mashTape visual redesign
- 1.1.7. Concerts visual redesign
- 1.1.8. Landing page refresh
- 1.1.9. LyricMaster visual redesign
- 1.1.10. Preferences redesign
- 1.1.11. First run setup redesign
- 1.1.12. Bookmarks system
- 1.1.13.
- 1.1.14. New Media View: "Album List View"
- 1.1.15. Branding
- 1.1. Priorities
Costing and documenting the implementation details for the new brand relaunch Feather to go out with KoЯn. This costing makes the following assumptions:
- No backwards compatibility consideration (i.e. no development cost for maintaining backwards compatibility)
- This is purely reflective of development costs, i.e.:
- Design (Steve N.) costs aren't factored in
- QA costs aren't factored in
Stories & Tasks
Total cost for all Purple Rain stories, tasks, bugs: 201
Open bugs: 73
Closed bugs: 128
Priorities
P1 = Currently being worked on for this iteration
P2 = Must have for Phase 1
P3 = Nice to have, but could be bumped for Phase 1
P4 = Punted to later phase
In some cases, the parent story has a P4 while tasks/bugs associated with it are P2. For these stories, the minimal tasks needed (typically styling/visual only) need to be done as P2 while the overall story (e.g. a new Servicepane or Faceplate) is in reality punted with the bulk of the P4 tasks associated with it.
Create the base Feather
Total cost for this story: 15
| ID | Priority | Cost | Title | Description | Engineer | Testcase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18508 | P1 | 0 | Create base Feather | Create the base Feather with correct CSS colors, and replace base elements icons/buttons/etc. | stevel | N/A |
| 18513 | P1 | 2 | Change color/CSS values | Change the base CSS color values to match the new colors as specified in the visual comps | stevel | N/A |
| 18514 | P1 | 2 | Replace window frame graphics | Replace the platform-specific window frame graphics. This may be problematic since we use native window handling/drawing for Mac, and I'm unsure how well this will play with us wanting to use a custom window titlebar to render the new colors. Costing at 2 for now, could be a 1 in actuality. | stevel | N/A |
| 18515 | P1 | 2 | Replace base element graphics | Replace the various base element graphics with the new graphics as designed/clipped in the visual comps. | stevel | N/A |
| 18517 | P1 | 1 | Replace player control graphics | Replace the player control graphics with the new ones. | stevel | N/A |
| 18518 | P4 | 1 | Relocate shuffle/repeat buttons | Relocate the shuffle/repeat buttons so they are vertically stacked on top of each other instead of being next to each other like they currently are. | feathers | |
| 18519 | P1 | 1 | Visually seamless search engine dropdown button | Currently the search engine drop down selection button is visually distinguished from the search field. Make this look like a seamless continuous field per the visual comps. | stevel | N/A |
| 18520 | P4 | 2 | Increase size of player control buttons/controls | Increase the size of the player control buttons per the visual comps. | feathers | |
| 18521 | P1 | 1 | Change scrollbar arrow positions | Relocate the arrow controls from being stacked at the end/bottom of scrollbars to being at the top/start and bottom/end per visual comps. | stevel | N/A |
| 18609 | P1 | 1 | Default player controls & faceplate to the top | Currently we default player controls to the bottom, we should default them back up to the top. | stevel | N/A |
| 18652 | P1 | 2 | Restyle miniplayer | Style the miniplayer to match. | stevel | N/A |
The new faceplate
Total cost for this story: 6
- If we drop
bug 18526, there is additional design work needed to design a thumb graphic. It might be less work to just takebug 18526to offset the design cost. - For Phase 1 we'll strictly be restyling the existing Faceplate and keeping the same dimensions/layout to minimise engineering cost.
| ID | Priority | Cost | Title | Description | Engineer | Testcase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18522 | P4 | 0 | New faceplate | Implement the new faceplate binding | feathers | |
| 18523 | P4 | 1 | New track metadata text position | Center the track title and artist name and move the album title to the second line | feathers | |
| 18524 | P4 | 1 | Relocate Last.fm/Concerts action icons | The love, ban, & ticket icons are to be relocated to the top left of the faceplate | feathers | |
| 18525 | P4 | 1 | Increase faceplate height | In order to accomodate the new second line of text, the faceplate height will need to be increased. | feathers | |
| 18526 | P1 | 1 | Drop seekbar/position slider thumb control | Drop the existing seekbar/position slider thumb control | stevel | |
| 18527 | P1 | 1 | Replace base graphics | Replace the base graphics (progress slider, Last.fm/Concerts icons, etc.) | stevel | N/A |
| 18528 | P1 | 1 | Change faceplate color/CSS values | Update the base CSS color values for the faceplate to match the new design. | stevel | N/A |
Display pane control & management
Total cost for this story: 11
- One concern I have is with the removal of the display pane toggle buttons. Currently we use those as a way to load/unload the display pane while the grippy/splitter is used to collapse visibility of a display pane but still leave it running. Losing the load/unload buttons means we need to change this behaviour possibly.
- Zaudhaus's original design thoughts were reflective of trying to simplify the way display panes are managed, and shown. We're punting on that and simply going with visually restyling them to match the rest of the Purple Rain Feather.
| ID | Priority | Cost | Title | Description | Engineer | Testcase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18529 | P1 | 0 | New display pane controls/management | Implement the new display pane controls and management behaviour. | stevel | N/A |
| 18530 | P1 | 2 | Create new display pane splitter + grabber binding | Fork the sb-smart-splitter to create a "thick" one used only for display panes incorporating the new grabber icon. | stevel | N/A |
| 18531 | P1 | 1 | Replace display pane base graphics | Replace the base graphics for the menu dropdown icon and any other display pane graphics. | stevel | N/A |
| 18532 | P1 | 1 | Remove display pane icon & titles from the control bar | Remove the display pane icon and add-on name/title from the display pane header/control bar. | stevel | N/A |
| 18533 | P1 | 1 | Change display pane color/CSS values | Change the base CSS color values for the various display pane related styles. | stevel | N/A |
| 18534 | P1 | 1 | Change background/look of display pane selector drop down menu | Change the drop down menu to reflect the new visual style in the comps. | stevel | N/A |
| 18535 | P1 | 1 | Restyle "No add-on loaded in this display pane" pane content | Restyle the pane content for when no add-on has been loaded in a visible display pane to match the same look and feel. | stevel | N/A |
| 18536 | P1 | 2 | Drop display pane show/hide toggle buttons | Remove the existing show/hide toggle buttons. This will necessitate working with the new splitter to ensure the user has an easy wide to toggle visibility of an add-on. | stevel | N/A |
| 18789 | P1 | 2 | Support extension sub-modes in control menu | With the removal of the titlebar buttons and tabs for display panes, we need a way for display panes to support having "sub-modes" and to allow users to choose them from the display pane control menu. | stevel | N/A |
Media View selection controls/widget
Total cost for this story: 11
- Zaudhaus's design makes a lot of sense. The individual toggle buttons work really well, but more design thought needs to be put into how this extends dynamically for third party Media Views. The work we'll be doing for Phase 1 is strictly around styling the existing control to match Purple Rain.
| ID | Priority | Cost | Title | Description | Engineer | Testcase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18538 | P1 | 0 | New Media View selection controls | Implement the new Media View selection controls per the visual comps (where each media view has its own button rather than having one single drop down menu item) | stevel | N/A |
| 18539 | P1 | 1 | API for Media View developers to define a button icon for their add-on | Define an API, probably in install.rdf for Media View developers to define a button icon used to represent their Media View in the selection binding. | stevel | 4626 |
| 18540 | P1 | 1 | Create new base elements/styles/icons for List View & Filter View | Create icons to represent the List View & Filter View | stevel | N/A |
| 18541 | P1 | 2 | Dynamically position new Media Views | Dynamically position new Media Views into the Media View selection binding widget | stevel | 4627 |
| 18542 | P1 | 3 | Create binding for Media View selection controls | Create the new binding used to render the Media View selection widget where each Media view is represented by 1 dedicated button. | stevel | N/A |
| 18543 | P1 | 2 | Replace old Media View selection control with new binding | Remove the old single button + drop down control and replace it wiht the new binding. May involve trickiness with padding due to going from a static width element to a variable width element. | stevel | 4628 |
| 18596 | P1 | 1 | Restyle Media View drop down menu | Restyle the drop down menu to match the Feather (should look like the display pane selector menu in bug 18534) | stevel | N/A |
| 18597 | P1 | 1 | Change Media View base graphics | Change any of the base graphics associated with the Media View selection button and drop down menu | stevel | N/A |
New Servicepane
Total cost for this story: 26
- Zaudhaus's new design for the servicepane is definitely the direction we want to head in long term but has high development & QA costs associated with completely reimplementing it in the manner spec'd. Phase 1 is limited strictly to restyling the colors and icons to match Purple Rain.
| ID | Priority | Cost | Title | Description | Engineer | Testcase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18544 | P4 | 0 | New Servicepane | Implement the new servicepane. | feathers | |
| 18545 | P4 | 3 | Create new servicepane binding | Create the new servicepane binding. | feathers | |
| 18546 | P4 | 3 | Drop old tree rendering | Remove the old tree rendering of the servicepane and migrate to the new groupbox rendering. | feathers | |
| 18547 | P4 | 2 | Draw groupbox per top level node | For each top level node, represent it visually as a groupbox where the title is the top level node text, and the box contents are the children of the node. | feathers | |
| 18548 | P4 | 3 | Create hide/show toggle arrow per top level node groupbox | Each groupbox representing a top level node needs a hide/show arrow which toggles the collapsed state of the groupbox | feathers | |
| 18549 | P4 | 2 | Style top level node groupboxes | Style each groupbox per the visual comps. | feathers | |
| 18550 | P4 | 2 | Style new servicepane binding | Style the new servicepane binding | feathers | |
| 18551 | P4 | 2 | Create API for a count indicator per servicepane node | Create an interface to allow servicepane nodes to have a count badge displayed next to the node per the visual comps. | feathers | |
| 18552 | P4 | 2 | Create API for a generic icon badge per servicepane node | Create an interface to allow servicepane nodes to have a generic icon badge displayed next to the node per the visual comps. | feathers | |
| 20461 | 1 | Change base element/graphics | Drop in the new replacement base element graphics for the servicepane icons | feathers | ||
| 20462 | 1 | Change servicepane color/CSS values | Update the base CSS color values for new servicepane model. | feathers |
mashTape visual redesign
Total cost for this story: 7
- The wireframes only show the Artist Info tab, but the common CSS changes should be applied to all tabs.
- For the record, I'm opposed to
bug 18554and vehemently opposed tobug 18558
| ID | Priority | Cost | Title | Description | Engineer | Testcase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18553 | P1 | 0 | mashTape Visual Redesign | Redesign the visual look and feel of mashTape | feathers | N/A |
| 18554 | P2 | 1 | Change name | Apparently people don't like the name mashTape and want it changed. | stevel | |
| 18555 | P1 | 2 | New navigation tabs | Implement the in-pane-content navigation tabs as spec'd in the visual comps | stevel | N/A |
| 18556 | P1 | 1 | Drop old navigation tabs | Drop the old mashTape control tabs that are embedded into the display pane header. | stevel | |
| 18557 | P1 | 1 | Change color/CSS values for mashTape | Implement the new colour scheme for mashTape. | stevel | N/A |
| 18558 | P2 | 1 | Drop service provider favicons | Drop the service provider favicons per the visual comps. | stevel | |
| 18559 | P1 | 1 | New "Nothing Playing" pane content | When nothing is playing, mashTape should show a pane similar to the one in the visual comps indicating the user should play a track to see content. | stevel | N/A |
Concerts visual redesign
Total cost for this story: 7
- Visual design for first run/location-setup page is not changed
- Visual design for updating tour information/progress page is not yet designed
- Visual design for listing page as sorted by Concert Date was not designed, but can probably be extended from the existing visual comps for the Artist Name sort
| ID | Priority | Cost | Title | Description | Engineer | Testcase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18560 | P1 | 0 | Concerts Visual Redesign | Redesign the visual look and feel of Concerts | feathers | N/A |
| 18561 | P1 | 1 | Create header on search results page | The header should contain the large "Concerts" name and the "Powered by Songkick" badge per the visual comps | stevel | N/A |
| 18562 | P1 | 2 | Create subheader block | The subheader should contain the concert count, location indicator, change location button, and the checkbox for toggling the view of ALL artists vs. just the artists in your library. | stevel | N/A |
| 18563 | P1 | 1 | Create alpha-index selection and view-by control | In the search results page, create a new alphabetical-index selection (to allow the user to jump to results per letter) as well as incorporating the new view-by control to sort by Artist Name or Date. | stevel | N/A |
| 18564 | P1 | 1 | Restyle listing rows | Restyle each row in the Concerts search results per visual comps. | stevel | N/A |
| 18675 | P1 | 2 | Restyle Concerts first-run/location-change page | Restyle the first-run and location-change pages to look like the design in the visual comps and copy. | stevel | N/A |
Landing page refresh
Total cost for this story: 6
- bug 18568 could be P3'd to reflect the fact that we could, in a pinch, go out without this since we show the landing page already for the first time a new user launches Songbird. We can change this for a follow-up release to add more complexity around how we want to show this.
| ID | Priority | Cost | Title | Description | Engineer | Testcase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18565 | P1 | 0 | First run landing page redesign | Design a new first run landing page for users to be taken to | birdhouse | N/A |
| 18566 | P1 | 0 | Create landing page HTML | Create the page per visual comps | birdhouse | N/A |
LyricMaster visual redesign
Total cost for this story: 3
- Need to get in touch with Ryan to see about licensing LyricMaster
- There are potential copyright violations with the content of LyricMaster. Do we want to risk this at this point?
- QA cost for this is high since QA doesn't test against this add-on currently. Bringing this into first-run has low development cost (assuming all we want to do is just restyle it), but high QA cost.
- If QA tests rigorously against LyricMaster and finds issues, there will undoubtedly be additional development cost to fix bugs, etc.
| ID | Priority | Cost | Title | Description | Engineer | Testcase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18569 | P1 | 0 | LyricMaster Visual Redesign | Redesign the visual look and feel of LyricsMaster | stevel | N/A |
| 18570 | P1 | 1 | Create new skin/theme for LyricMaster | Create a new skin/theme for LyricsMaster matching the rest of the Purple Rain CSS colours | stevel | N/A |
| 18700 | P4 | 2 | Rewrite HTML output & existing skins | More extensively rewrite the LyricMaster output HTML and existing skins mechanism to be more flexible and allow for more flexible layouts. | feathers |
Preferences redesign
Total cost for this story: 3
| ID | Priority | Cost | Title | Description | Engineer | Testcase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18571 | P1 | 0 | Preferences Visual Redesign | Update the preferences dialogs to reflect the new Purple Rain styles | feathers | N/A |
| 18572 | P1 | 1 | Update base CSS colors | Update the CSS colors to match | stevel | N/A |
| 18573 | P1 | 1 | Replace base element graphics | Replace the base element graphics for elements such as buttons, checkboxes, etc. | stevel | N/A |
| 18741 | P1 | 1 | Make preferences window resizable | Due to increased font sizes and visual styling, the preferences window should really be made resizable. | stevel | N/A |
First run setup redesign
Total cost for this story: 15
- Note that the visual comps reflect removing the first run add-ons page. This has all sorts of hairy ramifications.
| ID | Priority | Cost | Title | Description | Engineer | Testcase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18574 | P4 | 0 | Redesign first run setup wizard pages | Redesign the first run setup wizard steps per the visual comps | feathers | |
| 18575 | P4 | 2 | Remove language drop down from EULA acceptance step | Remove the language drop down and go back to automatically guessing and not allowing the user to override the detected language. | feathers | |
| 18576 | P4 | 1 | Auto-detect language | Auto detect the user's language settings from the platform | feathers | |
| 18577 | P1 | 1 | Update text/copy on "Welcome to Songbird" step | Update the text and visual look on the "Welcome to Songbird" page | stevel | N/A |
| 18578 | P4 | 3 | In-wizard import of iTunes library or media scan | Currently iTunes import or media scanning is left until after the wizard has finished where the main Songbird window is drawn and a modal dialog is popped up to process the import job. Move this to doing it inside the wizard. | feathers | |
| 18579 | P4 | 3 | Time estimate for import/scan job | Give the user a progress indicator with time estimate for how long the import/scan job will take | feathers | |
| 18580 | P4 | 2 | Show user the # of tracks imported successfully | Present the user with a wizard page after the import is done informing them of how many tracks were imported successfully. | feathers | |
| 18581 | P1 | 1 | Redesign "Help Make Songbird Better" step | Redesign the "Help Make Songbird Better" step to match the new visual comps. | stevel | N/A |
| 18582 | P4 | 2 | Remove first run add-ons step | Remove the first run add-ons step in the wizard | feathers |
Bookmarks system
- Phase 1 simply involves removing the UI elements of bookmarks. It does not take into account any of the following:
- Removing the API services surrounding bookmarks (e.g. sbIBookmarksServicePane & friends)
- Existing profiles with Bookmark nodes... the behaviour here is undefined
| ID | Priority | Cost | Title | Description | Engineer | Testcase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18600 | P4 | 0 | Remove bookmarks system | Remove the bookmarks system for being able to create arbitrary bookmarks for webpages. | feathers | |
| 18601 | P1 | 2 | Remove bookmarks servicepane node | Remove the bookmarks node and sub-tree from the servicepane. | stevel | |
| 18602 | P1 | 1 | Remove bookmarks context menu action & menu item | Remove the ability to add bookmarks from the context menu and menu. | stevel | |
| 18603 | P4 | 2 | Remove bookmarks APIs & services | Remove the ability for add-ons to use the various bookmarks services and APIs. | feathers |
New Media View: "Album List View"
Total cost for this story: 24
| ID | Priority | Cost | Title | Description | Engineer | Testcase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18583 | P4 | 15 | Album List View Media View | Implement a new media view incorporating Album Artwork similar to stevo (now Moshy)'s old Album List View media view: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1309 | feathers | |
| 18584 | P4 | 3 | Incorporate album artwork in view | Incorporate album artwork into the view | feathers | |
| 18585 | P4 | 3 | Group mediaitems together by common metadata | Group tracks which are in the same album name and artist name into broken down sb-playlist widgets | feathers | |
| 18586 | P4 | 2 | Separator between each album | Incorporate a separator/padding between each album grouping in the album view | feathers | |
| 18587 | P4 | 1 | New Media View selection icon button | We'll need a new media view selection button to represent this view in the new widget. | feathers |
Branding
Total cost for this story: 2
| ID | Priority | Cost | Title | Description | Engineer | Testcase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18604 | P1 | 0 | Re-brand application | Various branding related changes | stevel | N/A |
| 18605 | P1 | 1 | Update application icon | Update the application icon. See bug 13209 for when we last did this to see the various places it should be changed. | stevel | |
| 18606 | P1 | 1 | Update various bird artwork pieces | Bird artwork is currently shown in the first run wizard, if it needs updating, we should update that too. Likewise for help dialogs and help:about, help:credits, etc. | stevel |
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