iTunes like Album selector

[Jon Ursenbach]

CD Stack feature looks awesome.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
<admin at leinir.dk> wrote:
> Thursday 21 February 2008 skrev Martin Graesslin:
>
>
> > Hi,
>  >
>  > I implemented an alternative Alt+Tab window switcher for KWin's Desktop
>  > Effects (svn commit 777745) which is inspired by iTunes Album selector.
>  >
>  > I think it should be possible to "port" it to a plamaoid. So if you want to
>  > have such an iTunes like album selector, I would start to extract the
>  > functionality into an own class and write a plasmaoid which uses it. The
>  > effect is implemented in OpenGL, so that should not be any problem.
>  >
>  > If you want to take a look at the effect, I recorded a video, you can find
>  > it here: http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1Nu4425g8
>  > (if you have problems with flash or want to see a better resolution, just
>  > mail me and I will provide the uncompressed video)
>  >
>  > Best regards
>  > Martin Gräßlin
>
>   We've discussed the possibility of doing this, and while coverflow is all
>  pretty and stuff, we do not really see the merits of it as a method of track
>  selection... and we really do not like eyecandy with no reason ;) So... In
>  stead, this is what i came up with:
>  http://leinir.dk/temp/gallery/mockups.php?image=mockups/cd-stack-in-glorious-pen-o-vision.jpg
>   Further reasoning behind this is that we have a very large amount of
>  vertical space, and much less horizontal space, so we need the items to be on
>  top of eachother rather than side-by-side like in the normal coverflow. If
>  you feel up to implementing this, i know a team of amarokers who would really
>  love to see it happen :)
>
>   Also, i must say, your coverflow kwin composite effect looks really neat :)
>  Does it have the keyboard filtering that the expose-like effect does?
>
>  --
>  ..Dan // Leinir..
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