softlist: splitted developer/language into multiple entries

[holub]

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[holub]

I see couple places which need to be redone. Appreciate if somebody else participate in visual review as well.

[ICEknigh7]

Sorry if there may be some duplicates reported above, I had submitted all these three hours ago but Github had them "Pending" for some reason.

[holub]

Thanks @angelosa @ICEknigh7, your discovers must be ok now

[holub]

Thought: maybe UI needs to group such items instead of producing long separated list

[etabeta78]

UI-friendliness was one of the reasons why these features were supposed to be unique :-) my 2c

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[holub]

UI-friendliness was one of the reasons why these features were supposed to be unique :-) my 2c
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By "unique" you mean opposite? Items which produces unpredictable amount of filter options... English + English/Spanish + ...
Plus confusing separation in case "&" "," or "/" are part of developer name where you can't understand clearly if that's true separation or such authentic name.
Fixing UI is not a big deal when we have these items properly separated.

[holub]

I fixed UI as well

[angelosa]

I don't like this UI display, what's the point in splitting all the developers / languages if the end result is essentially equivalent to <info name="developer" value="AAAA / BBBB / CCCC / ..." />. At worst can cause confusion and give people the idea that's the way to go if they trust the UI more than actually checking for hash samples.

[holub]

The value is in filter options.
Chanting the separatior to something uncomon e.g. • will be more visually correct.

[angelosa]

Sounds like a stall, let's hear back @cuavas opinion.

[ICEknigh7]

For context, this is how the UI display looks in the latest public release (MAME 0.280):

[cuavas]

Let’s get the metadata cleanup in now and worry about the UI later.