[Feature Request] Improved group editing.

Issue #3182 new
Conar McVicker created an issue

This one is kind of tough to explain. Essentially the current group edit details widget makes you select each category you want to edit individually and also has you click through more than one at a time if you want to edit more than one category for a group of games. It also doesn't show you any info that already exists in the categories.

What I propose is to make the group edit function more similar to the single edit one. Instead of clicking through menus, it just show the same screen when you go to edit details on one game minus the picture/filepath etc section.

If the category ie Platform/Developer is the same for all selected games then show what that Platform/Developer etc. is.

For example, if you select a bunch of games made by Rare. When you open them in the group edit widget the Developer category would say Rare because that's a category they all share.

Now for categories that are different. Instead of showing a blank box, (which would be confusing because most games share some blank categories.) show perhaps three ***. Users would then know that the selected games are different somehow in that category.

For the Rare example above. The Genre and Platform category would likely be full of *** since many of Rare's games don't share genres.

I believe this would allow users to more easily mass edit similar or nearly similar games. As well as save time in trying to make sure that all of the games are similarly listed in certain categories. A program called mp3tag had a feature similar to this.

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