[Amarok] Moved playlist layouts selection menu back to the

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

> I'm going to give a dose of Australian frankness here.  <SNIP>

... I am not even going to comment on that one for now...



> Going on this - how can you really justify playlist configurations as
> a "bookmark"? Bookmarks are locations to data, and shouldn't be
> treated as anything else. Please don't justify to yourselves that
> configurations which show different information in the playlist are a
> type of bookmark - that they just aren't! There is inherent value in
> keeping distinct features different and not trying to meld them into
> one "monolith feature" where everything starts to get lost in itself.
> If you want to improve the discoverability of this feature, then you
> certainly shouldn't bury it inside another.

You are getting too hung up on the term "bookmark", which I agree
might be a bit misleading in this case. What is really is is just a
way of storing a preset that captures a number of different settings
at once, exactly the same way that we currently have bookmarks for the
browser that wraps location, sorting levels and filter values into
one.

The underlying implementation is based on amarok_urls in both cases,
but the underlying framework already supports hadnling many types of
these while still allowing you to keep them separated from a user
perspective.

The interface for this that is currently in the browser will work
every bit as well for capturing sorting-scheme, grouping mode,
playlist layout (and possible filter, I have not made up my mind about
that one) in the playlist. Also, when this is implemented, I think
having the layout switching in the tool-bar might not be as important,
but the general feedback since I moved it to the menu (the wrong menu
even, I think it should have gone to the playlist and not the settings
one...) has been that it was much too well hidden as at least the
switching between layouts part of it is quite frequntly used for many
people.

- Nikolaj