Re: [Banshee-List] Fanart extension appearance

[olivier dufour <olivier duff gmail com>]

Hi,

just my 2 cents:

1) for unknow artist icon. Best is to use a common icon and have random background color which change with each artist.

2) Paid attention to size of image for each artist. Load it in memory can take a lot of space. Maybe make a thumbnail is better. don't you think?

regards,

Olivier

Olivier Dufour

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Tomasz M. <tmtimon gmail com> wrote:

Hi,
I'm writing Fanart Banshee extension which downloads artists' images
from Fanart.tv, stores them on disk and displays in ArtistView.
Fanart.tv provides PNG images of size 400px*155px (or 200px*77px) with
alpha channel. There are artist for which images are not available (or
there's not enough metadata to determine it).

Here is link  to 4 files with proposed appearance of ArtistView:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r0eki26mxtzwr6b/EIOW96xrVr
"list - artists names first, no unknown images.png" is the best out of
them, but it's not good enough.
Temporary, I use one of standard GNOME icons for artist with no
dedicated artist image. That icon must be changed (if anyone has an
idea what icon/image can be used here, please let me know) or removed.

All suggestions and new screenshots edited with GIMP are welcomed.
Here's link to sample logo:
http://fanart.tv/fanart/music/f4a31f0a-51dd-4fa7-986d-3095c40c5ed9/musiclogo/27702/evanescence-4f8acb2ae6002.png

regards,
Tomasz
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