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

[LCID Fire <lcid-fire gmx net>]

Gabriel Burt wrote:
> 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).
Not entirely.
I don't want another frame(!) for the browser to start with (since the
source list is already some kind of browser) - but I would like to have
the browser functionality in a slicker layout. This means I like the
idea - but not the way it is shown in the ui. One solution for this
would be to merge the source list and browser.
It's true - I don't need the browser in the playlist - but it wouldn't
hurt me to have it as long as it would not be a seperate frame.