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Browse your cover-art albums in Rhythmbox v2.96 - 3.0+
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Create another/s views which coexist with/replace the current default view #103

Closed asermax closed 11 years ago

asermax commented 11 years ago

Since we're having a mayor model refactoring, we can start thinking of making different views that work on top of it.

An example provided by @fossfreedom: artist

fossfreedom commented 11 years ago

This is also an "interesting" view - not sure if this is possible with a default GtkIconview -

musique

fossfreedom commented 11 years ago

@asermax -

have you come across in your travels any coverflow type code - the sort of stuff where you can swipe side to side to scroll through cover images.

Just contemplating/speculating for the top picture whether a coverflow arrangement would be useful to select a cover when a user clicks on the left list of album-artists or genres. Clicking on the cover would then display the entryview for the cover.

asermax commented 11 years ago

I know what you are talking about, but no, never got to crack one of those. I think it would easy enough to find one and see how it's made, the problem is implementing it in GTK, since it doesn't have many tools for doing something like that. We would probably have to do all the drawing by ourselves (using cairo), and maybe use Clutter, but I'm not sure. Anyway, seems worth investigating.

fossfreedom commented 11 years ago

clutter was the key word here - cheers for that. This python example looks interesting. I'll have a browse through this to see how its done.

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