Re: [Banshee-List] ANNOUNCE: Banshee 1.0 Alpha 3 (0.98.3) Released!

["Gabriel Burt" <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:04 PM, LCID Fire <lcid-fire gmx net> wrote:
>
> Gabriel Burt wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:55 AM, LCID Fire <lcid-fire gmx net> wrote:
>  >> Aaron Bockover wrote:
>  >>  > Hello,
>  >>  >
>  >>  > We've released Banshee 1.0 Alpha 3 (0.98.3), two weeks after our second
>  >>  > 1.0 alpha release, which brings some great new features and lots of bug
>  >>  > fixes and performance improvements.
>  >>  Well I finally tried out the new banshee and it's looks quite good. I
>  >>  love the lastfm features but didn't have the chance yet to play around
>  >>  that much.
>  >>  One thing that got pretty appearent: Please remove the browser frame!
>  >>  The old frame layout was really nice and simple - but not only does the
>  >>  browser frame take much space - it also destroys the simplicity of the
>  >>  ui. The basic idea is great - but I'd like it more to be in the source
>  >>  list than in a seperate frame.
>  >
>  > I don't know what you mean.  Is your issue with the Last.fm support,
>  > or general?  Can you explain in more detail, or provide a mockup of
>  > what you want?
>
>  Sorry to be not clear about this.
>  I have a problem with the general layout. I'd rather have the browser
>  and the source list merged. Perhaps it gets a little clearer looking at
>  the following fake screenshot:
>  http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3060/2416228517_8d8159c66a_b.jpg
>  This is what I think should be changed. (Look at the source list ;))
>  My line of argumentation is that I don't need to filter the playlists
>  anymore because they are already filtered. At least in the way I use
>  banshee it's not a use case (but I'd be interested what use cases other
>  people have). So the only thing where I think it makes sense is the full
>  music library - and therefor a new ChildSource "All artists" could be added.
>  Did I make myself a little more clear?

So the real issue is you don't want the browser to be shown for
playlists, right?  The way to solve that, if at all, is to remember if
you chose to hide the browser on a source (including playlists, etc).

Gabriel