Context View present and future

[William Viana]

CV progress is being a little bit slow but it's starting to take shape
as you can more or less see. Handling size and placement have been a
headache and still is in some cases but I'm overcoming those
difficulties.

What I'm going to be doing next will need some previous discussion. My
initial idea about the CV was a place with related context information
grouped together and navigated by zooming. I hope that now that you
can try the zooming you agree with that decision (although it's still
borked).

What I have in mind now it that we should create an initial Context
View setup where most users wouldn't have to be adding and removing
applets. Of course the users that do want to customize it would have
the possibility to do it. To start addressing the default CV setup
firstly I would like to start with the current track applet. My
suggestion is that we put it always on top of some containment even
when no song is being played (in that case, as suggested by markey, it
could show a nice image and a message like "not playing" ).

Also, some of you have stated that the applet browser is not ideal for
adding applets to the CV and I agree.

To summarize we need a good initial CV setup and a good configuration
interface. I have gave a lot of thought about it and some hours
playing with the gimp to come up with these mockups:

http://socios.aditel.org/~wviana/amarok/cv1p.png
http://socios.aditel.org/~wviana/amarok/cv2p.png

As you can see (apart of my lack of skills as an artist) there is the
current track on top and a cashew like tool box in the bottom part.
Buttons in the cashew could be zoom in/out, add applet, install applet
from internet and add containment.

Please comment, even if it's to say you think it's a complete mess :P
-- 
    -William-