Playlist tooltips, yet again

[Leo Franchi]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Oleksandr Khayrullin <saniokh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> I'm from the IUP ISI Amarok Team. We are currently developping, among other
> things (namely the Similar Artists and Upcoming Events applets) , the
> not-so-well-received feature that introduces tooltips in playlists.
>
> Relying on advice by Nikolaj Hald Nielsen, we plan to change this feature.
> But considering the little time we have left to spend on the project (we are
> supposed to be done by the end of March) and the general reaction to the
> feature so far, we figured it would be much safer to show you two mockups
> first.
>
> The option to turn it on and off will be moved to the playlist layout
> configuration:
>
> http://imagebin.ca/view/F28UFzO.html

I like this  location for the tooltip option. Doesn't clutter the main
config interface, but is exactly where it is expected to
be---configuring the playlist.

>
> Texts will be replaced by icons and the redundant info will be gone:
>
> http://imagebin.ca/view/WO8_XpT1.html

Nicer than before! +1 from me.

leo



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