New playlist - was: Re: Commit Digest Progress Report

[Rodrigo Marques]

Nikolaj,

I am a specialist in human interface, I am very eagle to see this new idea
of playlist with you, apparently is very promising!

Best regards,

Rodrigo Marques.


On Nov 13, 2007 7:27 AM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ok, here goes:
>
>
>
> Album grouping in the new playlist.
>
> Earlier this year, Ian Monroe (
> http://amarok.kde.org/blog/categories/4-eean ) did a lot of exciting
> work on laying down the basics of a new kind of playlist for Amarok2
> as a part of his Google Summer of Code project. The new playlist aims
> at being much more graphical in its expression, and allow for greater
> customizability of the info displayed for each track. Also, the old
> column based playlist required a large amount of horizontal space, and
> one of the goals o the new design was to make the playlist less wide.
> One response we heard quite a bit in connection with the development
> screenshots we posted, was the each track in the new playlist took up
> too much vertical space. So in an attempt to overcome this problem in
> many use cases. I experimented a bit with displaying an an album as a
> cohesive group. This has the advantage that you only need to show the
> information common to all the tracks in the album once, allowing each
> track to take up much less space.
>
> Upon posting the first, quote rough, preview screenshots of this, some
> people were inspired to come up with graphical mockups of how this
> could be made to look. One of these (
> http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/My+amarok+playlist?content=66926
> ) was so good that we decided to try and use it as a base for the
> general look of the new playlist.
>
> Doing the actual code for keeping tracks of album groups when moving,
> adding and deleting content took a few tries to get right, but the
> result is turning out quite promising. I have created the following
> video showing the current state. Keep in mind that this is still under
> quite heavy development :-)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=969uv4nP3LM
>
>
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