[Feedback] Multiple view of playlist

[Jeff Mitchell]

I haven't seen the blogs, but a few days ago we were discussing this in 
IRC, and myself and Seb at least would really like multiple views.  
Personally I'd love a way to extend the playlist over the context 
browser, turning it into a columned list like in 1.4.  This would be 
great for quick playlist management, or times when seeing more metadata 
is preferred than seeing context.

This does detract a bit from the original idea of the playlist redesign, 
which was to discourage superlong playlists in favor of enhancing 
dynamic playlists.  But much of that reasoning was originally because of 
how slow 1.4 would get with huge playlists, and AFAIK this should no 
longer be an issue in 2.0...

--Jeff

4bugzilla at gmail.com wrote:
> Serhiy sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
> I've spent some time reading amarok's blogs and found some details on
> playlist and plasma.
>  
> For example Ian Monroe writes that 
>   
>> I see no reason for multiple views.
>>     
> (he means different view of playlist)
>  
> I am totally disagree.
> Have you seen iTunes 7.x?
> It is very convenient when you can switch different views of playlist.
> Someone can like a view where tracks are grouped by albums with their
> covers displayed for each album. Other people could like traditional iTunes
> playlist (organized by table) more. 
>
> Possibility to switch between views allows everyone to have playlist he
> wants. Another one possible views could be "cover flow" (the same iTunes
> 7.x) and tree like view (similar to the current library organization). 
>
> You are integration plasma to allow different applets for context view.
> That's good. That's means that contex view will be customizable. But isn't
> playllist is more important for music player than context view??? I find
> it's not logical to allow customization of context view in the same time
> when you don't allow this for playlist and don't even want to have multiple
> views of playlist. Do you think nobody will want to change your design of
> playlist? Personally I find old design of playlist much more usable and
> convenient. And what if other users will want to see different playlist.
> Don't you think that  users will care more of playlist but not of context
> view. 
>
> I guess my last guestion would be "Is there any possibilily to have
> different views of playlist or possibility to customize playlist like
> context view?". All I really want from Amarok 2.x that it could lookat lest
> like
> http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/images/9/9f/Amarok_14_random.jpg
> I mean with old design of playlist.
>