Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] album covers

[Daniel Borgmann <spark-mailinglists web de>]

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 07:24, Douglas McMorris wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 14:09, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > tor 2003-05-15 klockan 09.21 skrev Luca Ferretti:
> > > Il mer, 2003-05-14 alle 17:44, Jorn Baayen ha scritto:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I think it would be nice support album covers in one way or another,
> > > > because it's fancy but above all it provides a very easy way (imho) to
> > > > find the album you're looking for. At least from the CDs I have I know
> > > > the covers pretty well, and I 'read' them much faster too than the album
> > > > titles. 
> > > > 
> > > > I do not think we should include the album cover in the playing area or
> > > > osmething, because it would not fit the theme often, be big, ugly, and
> > > > also useless there. However, maybe thumbnails in the album view would be
> > > > nice.. although they'd probably have to be fairly small.. and look
> > > > inconsistent with the artist browser. Hm, so we need something else.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > mmhh something like View -> Cool view? Choose it and enable
> > > visualization plugin, spectrum analyzer and the the album cover near
> > > song's name....ok, it's totally mad....
> > 
> > Album cover near song name.. naaargh.. useless .. :)
> > 
> > imho having two browser modes is pretty borked actually, but I think
> > there must be some way to put album covers to use in a sensible way.. 
> 
> There was some discussion long ago about having a small, skinnable
> player mode... perhaps we could resurect this idea... this would be the
> place for such eye-candy-esk features i think.
> 
> that said... that would probably be crack and not a good solution.  what
> if we just put it beside the artist and title (to the left) and have a
> pref for it... if it takes up too much space for people they could leave
> it off (make it off by default of course)

Nah. ;) Here are two more ideas:
1) A special "albums view" which would show the albums as thumbnailed
covers (not a list, but rather like a Nautilus icon view).
2) I'm not sure if this was alread in Evolution 1.2 so this applies to
Evolution 1.3:  If you create a new "group" in the shortcut bar, a new
header is shown at the bottom. If you click this header, it smoothly
scrolls to the top, exposing its contents. If you click on another
header, the new group will scroll down again. That's  pretty cool. :D So
what I'm thinking is, there could be a header "Albums" in the source
list which is down by default and when clicked shows all your albums
with cover thumbnails instead of your regular sources. I hope this made
any sense to you now. ;)

Daniel