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Changing Location of Movie Actor Section

Open qvattr0 opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Issue

This may be a matter of personal taste, but I believe that the placement of the "Actors" section for shows (Jellyfin entries with multiple movies) could be improved. At its current state, the positioning produces a lot of white space since it's usually much larger than the area dedicated to description of the show, which is located directly to the left of the actors section. This issue is further exacerbated on monitors with a low magnification scale (the screenshot below illustrates a window with a resolution 2856x1428 of at 100% display scaling). The blank space is most prevalent right below the show description.

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Potential Solutions

There are a couple of the potential solutions that could fix the problem; one of them is increasing the font size of the description section such that the text fills more space, making it more pleasing to the eye. This is a suboptimal solution though since having text presented on a page with multiple different font sizes adds more design dissonance than less (given how elegant the current form of the application is, I'd rather avoid it). An alternative solution is moving the "Actors" section below the episode selection section. I'd say that is the superior solution since,

  1. It would conform to the design language/layout for this page dedicated to specific episodes and movies.
  2. Nothing has to clash with it there, allowing us to spread out the actor section across the length of the page, thus minimizing the amount of blank space.

Considerations

If the actor section is moved to the bottom of the page, a new minor issue is introduced: the show description may be spread out too thin across the length of the application window (if it remains where it remained earlier). A solution I'd suggest to that problem would be moving the show description text area to below the strip giving details about the show (airing period, amount of seasons, age rating, TV rating, genre) and to the right of the poster.

qvattr0 avatar Dec 15 '24 11:12 qvattr0