Playlist tooltips, yet again

[Thomas Lübking]

I think one of the major concerns (ok, my concern... ;-) is that the tooltips 
are pretty large and cover the playlist - most likely the moment you want to 
interact with it.

Ppl. tend to "look with the mouse", but in a laggy way. I.e. the pointer may 
hover some playlist entry while you're interested in some other....

Long story short:
I'd suggest to try to get the tooltip out of the playlist (center), i.e. in 
the particular case of the mock, to the upper left or right (depending on 
window position compared to the desktop area), preferably right (out of the 
window)

Maybe you could also trace the cursor way, i.e. if the tooltips got shown 
bottom -> up (in a short time) so far it's more likely that the user is 
interested in the entry above the current one.

The icons between the cover and the text look a bit like a splitter what 
lowers their indicator function.
Depending on your time you could try to indent every even line.

Depending on how important a precise cover representation is, it might be nice 
to use the cover + a translucent overlay (to fade it agaist the text) as 
tooltip background.

Cheers,
Thomas


Am Wednesday 17 February 2010 schrieb Oleksandr Khayrullin:
> 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
> 
> Texts will be replaced by icons and the redundant info will be gone:
> 
> http://imagebin.ca/view/WO8_XpT1.html
> 
> That pretty much covers it. We are open to suggestions, but, as mentioned
> above, not for long ;) .
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> Oleksandr Khayrullin
> The IUP ISI Amarok Team