Collection View Split

[Jeff Mitchell]

Alejandro Wainzinger wrote:
> In the Collection browser, many types of collections are soon going to
> be used: nepomuk, daap, local etc.  It's inconvenient having to scroll
> a lot to get back to another collection.  I was wondering if we could
> have the current collection view split in 2, so that we have 2 views
> stacked vertically.  I say 2 because that's all that's needed for
> simple comparison, if for example you want to copy a song from one
> collection to another or similar.  Even with browsing, this would be a
> big help.  Then maybe have a selector for each of the 2 views, to
> choose which collection you want to look at in each.  This seems like
> a tacky solution, but I can't think of anything better.
> 
> I'm not sure if this has been discussed already, so sorry if this is a
> repeat of an old discussion.

Hey, glad to see a possible user of an old idea  :-)  Page one of my 
original Popup Dropper proposal presents a possible solution to this 
problem:

http://amarok.kde.org/blog/uploads/collmenus1_small.png

--Jeff