Collection View Split

[Ian Monroe]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Jeff Mitchell <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
> 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

Some normal tabs over the widget might work too, basically the same
idea as Jeff's.

Ian