Collection View Split

[Ian Monroe]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Jeff Mitchell
<kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
> Ian Monroe wrote:
>>> 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
>
> Ian,
>
> A difference between tabs and my suggestion is that when you have tabs
> you have discrete views that you select one at a time.  The idea here
> was to group the collections and have you select which (any and all)
> groups you wanted to see, not just one at a time.

Ah very true, I remember having this discussion before. And they could
just all be on by default. Discoverability++. I like your idea better.
:)

On a slightly-unrelated note: I think Amarok could perhaps have some
smarts regarding what to do with Nepomuk vs. Local Collection. Users
shouldn't have to understand the distinction. I would kind of want to
see how distros actually use Strigi and such, so this is something to
think about post-2.0 IMO.

Ian