Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Feedback on album cover support

["Christophe Dehais" <christophe dehais gmail com>]

Very nice. I assume that another great side effect is that album arts
are now also visible in 'mini-player' mode.

Christophe.


On 2/14/07, William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On 2/12/07, chombee <chombee nerdshack com> wrote:
> > Any planned developments for rhythmbox's album cover support?
> >
> > I know from the archive that local image file support was recently added
> > and drag-and-drop is planned. This would be very good. I think there's
> > more to be done though...
> >
> > * Having the album cover in the bottom-left corner doesn't seem right.
> > The image is not very obviously associated with the album. People might
> > not know what it is. I like the way Banshee puts a small album image
> > right next to the text giving the album/artist/song name [1]. This
> > associates it well wit the album, and if you mouse-over the tiny image
> > you see a full size preview. Ignore the second album cover image they
> > have in the bottom left, that works just like rhythmbox and is pointless
> > when they're already displaying it at the top.
> >
> > [1]: http://banshee-project.org/Image:0_11_0_cd-rip.png
> >
> > Muine does something similar, placing the album image near the album
> > name on the interface [2].
> >
> > [2]: http://muine-player.org/wiki/Image:CMMainPageScreenshot.png
> >
> > As does Quod Libet [3]
> >
> > [3]:
> > http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7519/capturequodlibetdescendxc8.png
> >
> > I think Rhythmbox has enough empty space along the top to do something
> > like this.
> >
> > Also having the image in the bottom left is not very good use of space.
> > The side-pane is already crowded with the source list and play queue and
> > the users playlists. The user may want to add many playlists, and the
> > album art gets in the way of this. On my machine, at 1024*768, there is
> > no space for source list, queued songs and album art, and I don't even
> > have any playlists. And the source list can't be hidden, so something
> > else has to go.
> >
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407866
>
> Jon
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