Re: [Muine] minor annoyance with tray icon menu

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

Hi,

Sorry for the extremely slow reply. Yea, I agree we should have another
way to set album covers. Lee is working on doing DnD support in the add
album window now. I'm not a too big fan of it, but it is probably the
best we can do. And, once we have a decent info dialog you will also be
able to set a cover there.

Cheers,

Jorn

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 23:21 +0100, Vaclav Slavik wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > > Can you try the attached patch and see if that helps?
> >
> > I just commited a fix for this to CVS. Basically the same as your
> > fix, but multihead-proof.
> 
> Thanks! (Both of you ;)
> 
> > I don't think we should DnD to cellrenderers.. will be pretty damn
> > confusing I'm afraid..
> >
> > Technically it'll be possible somehow surely but nah.. don't think
> > we should.
> 
> Let me explain why I asked about it. I *knew* it's somehow possible to 
> set the cover via DnD, it was written in the NEWS file, and the 
> albums list was the first place where I tried it, which means that it 
> would be intuitive UI at least for me (assuming it would occur to me 
> that I can use DnD at all, which it probably wouldn't, I'm not used 
> to it). When it didn't work, I blamed it on one of these DnD 
> protocols incompatibility problems that still exist and only later 
> did it occur to me that I can try to drag the cover to the *other* 
> place where cover is shown.
> 
> So I am now able to set covers via DnD, but frankly, it can be a pain 
> to do it when you're doing initial import of lots of albums. I have 
> several albums that don't have covers at Amazon (mostly from 
> magnatune.com) and when I wanted to set them, I had two options: I 
> could do it one by one, i.e. add single album, drag the cover, clear 
> playlist, add another album, drag the cover, clear playlist and so 
> on. Or I could add all of the albums to the playlist and set them, 
> but because the album image is bound to currently played song, I'd 
> have to change the song at random, hover over the album image to see 
> what the album is in the tooltip (because this information is not 
> visible in the playlist), drag the image and continue searching for 
> songs from still-coverless albums by trial and error. Changing the 
> song takes about 2 seconds here (all GStreamer apps suffer from this, 
> it's not Muine-specific), so it is lengthy process.
> 
> Both these methods suffer from additional issue: I would like to 
> listen to one particular album when working on filling-in missing 
> covers, but I can't because I have to keep either changing the 
> playlist or changing between the songs, even though the task I'm 
> doing at the time (i.e., changing the covers) is unrelated to 
> playback.
> 
> This is, of course, not really important because you set the covers 
> once, but listen to the music all the time, so Muine's UI still beats 
> any other player's that I know by wide margin and would even if this 
> was as horrible problem as I made it sound above, which it isn't.
> 
> Regards,
> Vaclav
> 
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