Collection View/Playlist Ideas

[Jeff Mitchell]

Here's a couple ideas that were floated on IRC:

The Kopete style scrolling could be implemented such that it toggles when the 
user either holds down or clicks the middle mouse button.  This way, it's 
easily accessible for those that want it, but not forced on those that don't 
(and not made into a menu option).  Users can pick which way they want, when 
they want.


Regarding my Pop-Up Dropper idea, the Context View is right next to the 
Collection View and is a QGraphicsView -- which is designed to display 
graphical items and scroll, zoom and scale them quickly (plus I'm assuming 
OpenGL eye candy could be added if we wanted).  So on a drag start, the 
Collection View could trigger the Context View to shade what's currently 
there, and pop up these new items and handle them...when the user gets too 
far away or stops the drag, those new items are disabled and the rest of the 
scene is re-enabled.  Or something like that...I don't know much about it, 
but it seems like it might be doable.  Anyone's thoughts/revelations/know-how 
is appreciated.  But I gotta say, if we have this large QGraphicsView in the 
center of our app, we may as well use it   :-)

--Jeff