iTunes like Album selector

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

Thanks! :) Took a while to figure out just how it should work, but yeah, if 
someone picks that up and implements it, we've got an album browser to rival 
any out there in eye-candy, while at the same time actually being *useful* :)

Thursday 21 February 2008 skrev 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-glori
> >ous-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?
> >
> >  --
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