playlist tooltips

[Bart Cerneels]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 08:17, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
<nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so the opposition to the feature as it currently stands is duly noted.
>
> Here is my suggestion for moving forwards in a way that avoids a messy
> revert of a merge (I was not aware that this was such a hassle) and
> does not discard the work the that students has already put into this.
> In the branch the following could then be tried to make the feature
> more useful.
>
> 1. Disable the feature completely for 2.3 while keeping the code
> around (it is mostly external code so it is unlikely to cause bugs)
> and remove the option from the config page.
> 2. Make the config for showing a tooltip part of the playlist layout.
> 3. Make the tootip only show information that is complementary to the
> current playlist layout (meaning that if track title, album and artist
> is already shown, don't show this in the tooltip, show genre, year,
> score and comment instead, for instance)
> 4. Make the look more similar to the mockup
> http://imagebin.ca/view/r1yijxhn.html using icons instead of text for
> category descriptions.

5. Make it look like panzi's mockup:
https://web.student.tuwien.ac.at/~e0427417/images/amarok-tooltip-mockup-with-albumpic.png
(unless that is what you meant by 4.)

>
> Alternatively, if anyone knows how to revert the merge in a safe way,
> it can just be reverted completely and the students can try out the
> above steps in their branch before submitting the feature for a second
> go.
>
> - Nikolaj
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking at web.de> wrote:
>> Am Monday 08 February 2010 schrieb Leo Franchi:
>>> There is a difference, though, between easy access and in-your-face
>>> annoyance. If I stop my mouse over the playlist, this thing pops up.
>> What about adapting the content in the context area applet on hovering a
>> track?
>>
>> Cheers ;-)
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