Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Evolution of the album cover support in rhythmbox

[Adam Skobel <skobel gmail com>]

> No offense, but this is horrible from a User Interface standpoint.
> Think of the following situation-- switching between no cover and a
> cover will make for a visual jump where the image appears and moves the
> sources list down.  This means that users will need to memorize two
> positions where the Library or their defined playlists reside.  
>
> (for a Gnome HIG reference, check out
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/principles-consistency.html)
>
> iTunes has it better from a UI standpoint; keeping it below the sources
> list will not only keep everything consistent, but limits the jarring
> effect.
>
> Just my 0.02 cents.
That would be a problem, but its extremely easy to solve, when there
is no album photo available, have an image/plain text taking up that
text stating their is no album photo available, and when they click it
they should be able to associate one with that song.