FOSDEM 2010: making the Equalizer a dock widget?

[Enrico Ros]

I talked to the guy proposing the idea and he had a couple of points:

 1. the equalizer took half of the screen in the Fosdem talk and it's "made of 
sliders", so he thought a graphical one with a "paint-like" approach will be 
less space consuming.

 2. since he likes to modify the sound a lot, he would like to have it 
somewhere on the main window, so the 'dockable' idea (maybe undocked by 
default) is good stuff for him.

Plus I think that the per-track equalization may be a really good achievement 
for Amarok.

Enrico

On Monday 08 February 2010 11:57:00 Sven Krohlas 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.