Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] album covers

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

tor 2003-05-15 klockan 09.21 skrev Luca Ferretti:
> Il mer, 2003-05-14 alle 17:44, Jorn Baayen ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think it would be nice support album covers in one way or another,
> > because it's fancy but above all it provides a very easy way (imho) to
> > find the album you're looking for. At least from the CDs I have I know
> > the covers pretty well, and I 'read' them much faster too than the album
> > titles. 
> > 
> > I do not think we should include the album cover in the playing area or
> > osmething, because it would not fit the theme often, be big, ugly, and
> > also useless there. However, maybe thumbnails in the album view would be
> > nice.. although they'd probably have to be fairly small.. and look
> > inconsistent with the artist browser. Hm, so we need something else.
> > 
> 
> mmhh something like View -> Cool view? Choose it and enable
> visualization plugin, spectrum analyzer and the the album cover near
> song's name....ok, it's totally mad....

Album cover near song name.. naaargh.. useless .. :)

imho having two browser modes is pretty borked actually, but I think
there must be some way to put album covers to use in a sensible way.. 

> 
> But, hey, it's stuff for, at least, rhythmbox 0.7 :-)
> 
> 
> > Another thing that just occured to me - should we include a horizontal
> > scrollbar under the two browser windows, so that you can snap-scroll to
> > the left to see the genre view? I quite often I wish I had that myself,
> > since I'd love to use genre.. just not all the time since it easts too
> > much space.. and I kinda hate going to prefs just for using it once.
> > 
> 
> Just a question: do the width of each list come from its contents, or
> it's 'fixed'? 

it's fixed as things stand (horiz scrollbar in songsview is ugly and
useless, so I just manually resize the columns to fit)

> 
> I think that it can became ugly, but yeah, I've to wait that someone
> implement it...
>