Improving Amarok Current Track Applet look

[Orville Bennett]

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On Mar 26, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Dan Meltzer wrote:

> 2009/3/26 Magnus Bergmark <magnus.bergmark at gmail.com>:
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The other issue with putting these words on the right is that for
>>> really long track/artist names these words might not be shown...
>>>
>>
>> Wouldn't that always be a problem with any track name? If a track  
>> is long
>> enough to hide the "On" text, it would be too long to be displayed  
>> in full
>> length when an additional five characters are added to it anyway.
>> Personally, I believe that there needs to be a way to see the  
>> entire text
>> even if it is too long - with or without the "on". Scrolling, font  
>> scaling,
>> scroll bars, whatever. Removing "On" just "postpones" this and does  
>> not fix
>> it - it merely hides it and makes the "critical length" around five
>> characters longer.
>
> Well, not exactly.
>
> The "on" is contextual information, it clarifies what the next line is
> referring to.  If one has a long album name, the visible text is
> usually enough to be able to determine what the album name is, even if
> it can't be entirely shown.  If one wants to know the entire name,
> they can mouseover the text and get the full information in the
> tooltip.  The "On" and "By" is important information, especially when
> some album names are other artist names.  The "on" and "by" should
> always be visible.  I suppose we could do this by eliding the name
> before it, but that would look ugly..
>
> why not put the "on" and "by" at the beginning of the subsequent line:
>
> "Foo
> On Bar
> By Baz"
Sensible suggestion. The space between the album cover and text can be  
fixed so that the "on" "by" is always visible. If not enough space is  
visible then it can simply be hidden.

Also I like #3. It did take me a while to see the difference though  
which is why I chose three.

>
> Rather than:
> "Foo on
> Bar by
> Baz"
>
> This seems to keep the related information together better.
>
> Dan,
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