Dolphin odd details view column grouping

I don’t often use details view, but I came across this while implementing the following for a friend.

What I’m referring to is the fact that the column options have categories for Audio, Video and Images. But these categories aren’t quite right. For example if I were to go into the Images column options and enable Width, this will display the width of videos. Similarly the Bitrate option is only under Audio, but as before this will display the bitrate of videos.

I noticed that there is one instance where this oddity was handled already and that was with Duration, the duration checkbox is actually in both the Video and Audio categories and checking one of them checks both options.

So I was wondering what everyone thinks about this. My first thought is that these shared properties should be moved to a new category called Media.

Semantically you’d have Duration and Dimensions, so that’s would feel weird.

The best way to go, I think, would be to generalize the Duration solution: having same checkbox in different submenus.

It seems in totality it would be like this, I’ve bolded and underlined duplicates:

  • Image
    • Date Photographed
    • Dimensions
    • Width
    • Height
    • Orientation
  • Audio
    • Artist
    • Genre
    • Album
    • Duration
    • Bitrate
    • Track
    • Release Year
    • Audio Codec
  • Video
    • Aspect Ratio
    • Frame Rate
    • Duration
    • Dimensions
    • Width
    • Height
    • Bitrate
    • Audio Codec
    • Video Codec
    • Color Space
    • Pixel Format
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