extragear/multimedia/amarok/src

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

> Nikolaj--
>
> How about starting a QTimer when the mouse enters over an album of, say,
> half a second, maybe more, then expand (so long as the time is < the
> average time it takes to put the mouse pointer on the + and click it).
> When the mouse leaves the album, it could be instantly collapsed so as
> to make whatever is below it immediately visible and usable.

Well, I though about doing something like this, and actually made the
first prototype with elements that expanded on mouse over. The main
problem is actually collapsing them again when the mouse leaves.

Expanding is simple, it is triggered (or a timer started) when the
element gets a mouse hover event. But when do we collapse again? We
can't just do it when the mouse leaves the head element, as it might
now hover over one of the body elements or the end element of the same
album group. Since each element in essence has no idea of which group
they are part of (they just know how to draw themselves) figuring out
hen the mouse actually leaves an expanded album is quite difficult

- Nikolaj