FOSDEM 2010: making the Equalizer a dock widget?

Bart Cerneels bart.cerneels at kde.org
Mon Feb 8 11:26:23 UTC 2010


On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:57, Sven Krohlas <sven at asbest-online.de> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> some interesting idea showed up during my talk: one user suggested
> to make the equalizer a dock widget, that can be put together with
> playlist, media sources and context into the main window. I was a
> bit surprised about the idea, especially as half of the audience
> spontaneously(!!) hold up their hands to show they agree with it.
>
> So I promised to put it up for discussion. As I don't use the
> equalizer usually I personally don't seem to have a usecase for
> it but clearly that seems to be different for others.
>
> Thinking one step further:
> maybe it even makes sense to do this for all dialogs in the
> tools menu? Especially if you use the widgets in a tabbed style.
> --

I immediately agreed when Sven mentioned it on Saturday at FOSDEM. So
++ from me for an equalizer dock widget.
Only the bookmarks manager would make sense to be a dockwidget but
it's far less likely to be used that way then the equalizer.

Bart



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