Playlist tooltips, yet again

[Oleksandr Khayrullin]

Thomas wrote:

> 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.
>

I'm afraid that if the tooltip acts differently from any other tooltips, it
might confuse the user... the most intuitive solution to the problem for me
is to make the tooltip "lag" a bit, making the delay between the moment the
user stops moving the mouse and the moment the tooltip appears a little
longer (so that it doesn't just incessantly pop up, it only appears if the
user wants it to appear). I could be wrong, of course.


> 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.
>

Considering the pop-up contents are made in HTML, this can be done in no
time ;) .

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.


Excuse me, but I didn't really get it... you want to put the album cover in
the background of the tooltip? Wouldn't that make the tooltip a little
harder to read?
Or we could just remove the cover from the tooltip altogether to make the
tooltip smaller?

Besides that, I have a question: the tooltip, which will only show the info
absent from the playlist itself, is right now limited to only fields that
can be edited in the "Edit Track Details" window. Is there any other info
that should be shown on it? (like the score or the number of times it was
played...) Or should I make that editable somehow?
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