Feature request #111: REQUEST: Optional support for half-star ratings (giving a total of 10 possible ratings)

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1. Greg Hurrell 2005-02-03T00:12:44Z

   Thanks a lot for submitting the request, Oliver.

   I've reworded the summary slightly to reflect how this will most likely end up looking to the user. Basically, users can continue rating stuff as 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars if they want, but they'll also be able to optionally rate stuff in half-star increments if they want (ie. 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5 or 5 stars, which would correspond to rating scores of 0, 10, 20, 30 etc). Needless to say, these half-stars would only appear in the Synergy Advance interface; in the iTunes interface they will get rounded down.

   I am also moving this over against Synergy Advance, because that's where it's most likely to get implemented. The reason I've changed the summary line from "Provide interface for manipulating ratings out of 10 or 100 rather than 5" is that there is already some other stuff submitted to the feature request database that talks about ultra-fine grained control of the rating using increments of 1 unit (for example see bug #44). We can keep this bug for the simpler case of using increments of 10 units. If need be we can later create a separate entry for any other, separate interface idea related to this topic.

2. bugzilla user 85 2005-02-03T08:37:49Z

   I agree, allowing half stars (out of 10) would be the ideal medium between fineness and at-a-glace legibility.

3. Greg Hurrell 2005-05-02T00:47:07Z

   I've now put in an advanced preference that allows the user to decide how much they want to bump ratings up and down. You can see this when the public preview release comes out tomorrow.

   20 is the default (whole-star). 10 would be a good setting (half-star), but users can choose any at all between 1 and 100 (don't ask me why they'd want to).

   In the Synergy Advance UI I still am currently only showing full stars, but I will be adding half-star support shortly.

4. Greg Hurrell 2005-05-12T01:25:05Z

   Synergy Advance now shows half star ratings in the UI. Specifically, I've added it to the hot key feedback bezels, but not in the global menu. I won't be adding half-star rating display to the Global Menu any time soon because I want the Global Menu to mirror iTunes' Dock menu. So, if you want half star control, use the hot keys.

   Adding the fixed-in-prerelease keyword. You'll be able to get your hands on this in the 0.1.2 preview (which I will release soon; perhaps even later today if I can get everything organized).

5. Greg Hurrell 2005-05-12T03:37:33Z

   0.1.2 is now on the servers.

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