coverflow for amarok 2

[Michael Pujos]

Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> Sunday 09 March 2008 Johannes von Scheidt wrote:
>   
>> Hi amarok-users,
>>
>> Maybe you know Apple coverflow in Itunes and on the new IPods.
>> I think it's a very nice feature for amarok 2. And so i looked for an
>> open-source
>> project. And I found one. It's a Summer of Code project named
>> "pictureflow" [1]. It's a coverflow-like application for QT an Qtopia.
>> So it shouldn't be very hard to integrate this. What do you think about
>> my idea?
>>
>> [1] http://code.google.com/p/pictureflow/
>>     
>
>   While we are aware of CoverFlow, we are also aware of the inherent 
> uselessness of the concept... We do, however, recognise the potential 
> usefulness of eyecandy, and so we set out to figure out a way of making 
> CoverFlow itself useful. What we came up with was the CD Stack idea. Please 
> check out the KDE Summer of Code page[2] for more information on this :)
>
> [2] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas#Amarok
>
>   

Wow this CD stack idea looks even less useful than a traditional coverflow.