playlist tooltips

[Dan Meltzer]

I think that we could look into making this an on-demand tooltip
instead of a automagic popup.

Maybe via shortcut (or context menu) entry, that either expands the
item to show all this cool details or separate styled popup window.

I don't think that this information is useful enough to have always
appear, even if it is an option.


Oh, and it makes me want to strangle wombats in my backyard at the
current point.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
> 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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