MediaBrowser Zoom levels

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Christophe Olinger
<olingerc at binarylooks.com> wrote:
> Hey Shaan
>
> I was randomly brainstorming with myself and I had this idea:
> Currently we have this cool browser which can show us multiple items as grid
> or list. I wanted to give the user the possibility to focus on one item only
> (not the fullscreen player).
>
> Imagine when looking at pictures you browse through your files. Clicking on
> one image would foucs the browser on that item and an information panel
> would show up that gives us information about tags, comments and ratings a
> bit like this:
> http://zchydem.enume.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/screenshot-mrksaari-details.png.

Looks like a fine idea, but instead of clicking, we should use the
action which the user has set the default selection action (e.g.
hovering the mouse to select in Dolphin). I hope you don't get
irritated as I always keep reiterating this fact, but consistency is
really one of the ideas on which KDE is designed.

>
> It would be nice if the browser had a slot that would allow the states to
> tell it to focus on one item with a frame around. I would then put
> next/previous buttons in the control bar that allows the user to switch to
> another picture or we could just swipe or use the arrows on the keyboard.
> Since you are the browser master I thought I aske what you think about that.
>
> Double clicking on a picture would directly go to the player showing the
> picture in fullscreen mode in which the control panel and information panel
> would autohide. (I could also add a fullscreen button of course.

Again, instead of double-click, whatever the user has selected to
activate items.

>
> This would also be nice for the video mode, although I do not know yet how
> to handle showing the playlist and the information panel at once. Hmmm.
>
> Maybe we can have a brainstorming session about some detailed functionality
> that we want to provide. Doing this via the mailing list is maybe not such a
> good idea. At least for a first idea collection run.

No, it is always a good idea to post all such discussion on the
mailing list. (CC'ing to the ML) Also, its always a nice idea to be
online on IRC whenever possible, because imho communication with
others is no less important than coding :)

>
> Ok, back to work.
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris
>

Cheers,

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