Collection View/Playlist Ideas

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Friday 11 May 2007, Maximilian Kossick wrote:
> On Friday 11 May 2007, Ian Monroe wrote:
> > > 2) (Part 1) Collection Grouping
> > > http://www.jefferai.com/amarok/collectionviewpics/collmenus1.png
> >
> > These buttons actually have the functionality of tabs, so they
> > probably should just be tabs at the top. We could probably get it down
> > to like three tabs.
>
> I don't think using tabs is a good idea. Making the buttons toggle
> collection types on/off in the same view makes more sense than using tabs
> imo. All collections will have a QueryMaker implementation and it will be
> possible to filter them. And I don't want to switch tabs to check if there
> are any songs by Artist X on my harddisk, my ipod, or on a DAAP share that
> Amarok is connected to.
>
> But I agree that we could reduce the categories.

However, one thing I'd really like to get rid of is multiple rows of 
toolbars/buttons. In Amarok 1.4 we have 3 (!) rows above the actual 
Collectionbrowser view, and I think that looks very cluttered.

-- 
Mark