playlist tooltips

[Bart Cerneels]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 09:16, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
<nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I very much like this idea. Let's call them inline tooltips because
>> the information of the playlist row is extended with the tooltip
>> overlay with that same layout as a full row.
>>
>> Perhaps something for a weekend in the cabin?
>
> I'ts definitely doable, the code for the inline playback controls
> already does something very similar. I just wonder if playlist items
> resizing themselves all the time would not get very confusing.
> Remember that it will visually affect not just the item being resized,
> but all following items will get moved as well. At the very least
> there should be enough of a delay before triggering it that just
> moving the mouse down through the playlist does not cause things to
> jump all over the place.
>
> - Nikolaj

No, it should be an overlay, not resizing of the items in the
playlist. So more like painting beyond the row's standard rect.