[Feedback] Amarok 2 UI/playlist feedback

[Leo Franchi]

On 7/31/07, 4bugzilla at gmail.com <4bugzilla at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Serhiy sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
> The main source of information about Amarok 2 Development I was able to
> find is the following articale
> http://dot.kde.org/1173761811/
> It gives some guidelines how interface of Amarok 2 will look. From this
> article:
> --
> You may first wonder "Where is the playlist?" as I and a few of my peers
> on IRC initially wondered, but if you look closely, the list on the right
> is actually the playlist, only it's broken free from its old format.
> --
> And I wan to ask you the same question. Where is the playlist? As far as I
> can see from the article "playlist" it is what we can see on the right of
> http://static.kdenews.org/content/the-road-to-kde-4/vol12_4x_amarok.png
> image. I mean that screen is split into 3 parts where on the middle is
> former "context view" and "playlist" is what is right to the context view.
>
> Is this correct?
>
> If so I want to ask you some questions. Will I be able to make Amarok 2
> look like
> http://static.kdenews.org/content/the-road-to-kde-4/vol12_356_amarok.png
> ? I ask this because on Amarok 1.4.5 screenshot we can see what people
> call playlist. A list with not just list of pairs Title/Artist but a list
> with all information I want to see and with possibility to sort, filter do
> some other staff and exclude some tracks from playing (via checkbox) (But
> I
> guess this feature is missing)
>
> The other question will I be able to hide "context view" which is in the
> middle of the screen? I mean it is nice but it takes to much space on the
> screen but gives nothing useful (from my point of view).


you will be able to  hide the context view, if you wish. without it,
you won't be able to see much of the context data that is displayed
there, such as info about the current track, lyrics, wikipedia, and
more.
but if you so wish, you do have that option.

Are you planning to implement possibility to exclude some tracks from
> playing via checkbox. Like this is implemented in iTunes? It is very
> useful
> because you can keep some tracks in playlist and in the same time mark
> that
> they will not be played. This prevents users from editing playlist every
> time you just dont want some song was played in this list.
>
> And from my point of view it possible to clean up Amarok's UI and make it
> more simple and clear. I propose to have 3 different views for playlist. 1
> is row list which is enhanced table view similar to
> http://static.kdenews.org/content/the-road-to-kde-4/vol12_356_amarok.png
> but without context view. 2nd view can be very similar to the current
> context view but display all tracks grouped by albums or artists. And the
> third one the cover flow view similer to iTunes (I have read that someone
> is already working to implement this in Amarok). I think that it is
> possible to make these views different tabs in the playlist window so that
> it was very easy to switch between them.
>
> Other possible enhancement could be to reorganize navigation by the usage
> of tree instead of current buttons on the left side of the screen.
>
> Thanks,
> Serhiy
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