playlist tooltips

[Leo Franchi]

hi people but mostly nhn,

i noticed that the playlist-tooltip branch was merged. a few comments:

1) the tooltip itself is pretty ugly.  there's a lot of wasted space,
and a lot of blue emptiness. check it out:

http://imagebin.ca/view/mNS1pL8.html

2) the information is incredibly redundant. check out the screenshot
above, and look at this:

http://imagebin.ca/view/4ZC9dYAe.html

in the first screenshot, most of the information in the tooltip is
within 1-2cm of the tooltip itself. since the tooltip pops up after 1
or so seconds, i'm being assaulted with redundant information that
blocks *other* more important information that is not shown anywhere
else---that is, other tracks in my playlist. in the second screenshot,
you can see the cover image *three times*, each in a different size
(context view, playlist, tooltip). that just seems ridiculous to me.

i understand it's an option. but that too seems to bring up a question:

* we generally don't like micro-options unless they bring value to
amarok, rather than needlessly cluttering the config page. why is this
so important that it gets an option? why does this need to be able to
be toggled? i think new options in the config file need an absolutely
good reason to be there, and i don't think this has one. or of it
does, no one has made it and i don't think that's enough.

regarding the very-unattractive nature of the tooltip, we could
perhaps do something like the systemsettings tooltip:

http://imagebin.ca/view/r1yijxhn.html

but even being as pretty as that one, we need a good reason for
including it, a good reason for making it on by default, and an even
better reason for making it an option in our config page.

so without those, I think we should revert.

cheers,
leo

(i don't mean to belittle any of the work done by the authors of the
merge request, these are just my personal thoughts, etc).



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