Thanks for the suggestion about the QT Thread library. Looks perfect for what I'm doing. I'll probably have a play about with it before I get started on the project. <br><br>With regards to using freetype fonts, I have found a useful library, "OGLFT", but it is under the "GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)" license. I'm not sure if this is suitable for Amarok. Could anyone tell me?<br>
<br>I think the idea about using, what is currently the album axis, as the artist axis (and vice versa) is a good idea - Displaying all the albums of one artist would be much more useful than being able to see the next 5 or 6 artists you're going to scroll through.<br>
<br>About the idea of switching it so that the artists run through vertically, I am unsure. There will be text at the top of this display showing the album and artist. The CDs may get in the way of this. I also prefer having it "widescreen"! But I was thinking maybe if the ratio of the centre panel goes beyond a certain ratio (say 2:3) in width:height, then the whole thing could turn by 90 degrees (a bit ipod-esque, I know). I'm not sure if I'd have time to code this aswell. I'd quite like to get a reasonable working version for the end of GSoC, then continue working on it - I can't promise too much in my proposal!<br>
<br>Apologies for this being such a long email, but I'm working on a mock-up at the moment. I'll email it round tonight. <br><br>Leon<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 27/03/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nikolaj Hald Nielsen</b> <<a href="mailto:nhnfreespirit@gmail.com">nhnfreespirit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> You should consider to switch the axes.<br> <br> <br>I was thinking something simmilar, but more because it would let it<br> work in a vertical format that would fit well as an "alternative"<br> browser instead of a complementary one. That is, unless you come up<br>
with a really good way of fitting it somewhere else within the Amarok<br> interface. But then again, even the context view will only have<br> limited width most of the time I think.<br> <br> So I guess I would really like to see a mockup of how this would fit<br>
within the overall Amarok GUI. :-)<br> <br><br> - Nikolaj<br> <br>_______________________________________________<br> Amarok mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Amarok@kde.org">Amarok@kde.org</a><br> <a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok</a><br>
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