playlist subsystem overhaul

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
<nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm known to put great emphasis on graphical perfection, and as such I
>> have to say that the possibility of having proper animation in the
>> playlist is absolutely crucial. It has been a design goal of the
>> playlist from the beginning of Amarok 2 development. Even if we don't
>> get animation done until 2.0 anyway, what use would it be to switch to
>> a new system if we have to change it back later?
>>
>> So I would like to see proof for the feasibility of this before
>> agreeing to switching.
>
> To me at least, stuff like animation is completely secondary to having
> a playlist that actually works.

Yes, it's known that graphical finesse is of little importance to you :)

> As for feasibility, if the trolls can make animations work when
> expanding nodes in a QTreeView [...]

Which doesn't even work. Enabling it in combination with transparency
yields horrible graphical glitches.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org