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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 84012] Multipple Suggestions for amaroK
From:       Mark Kretschmann <markey () web ! de>
Date:       2004-06-26 6:54:31
Message-ID: 20040626065431.20923.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From markey web de  2004-06-26 08:54 -------
On Friday 25 June 2004 22:58, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> 1. First Run Help Guide
> -----------------------
>
> On first run of amaroK, why not show a wizard that guides you through the
> creation of a collection, selecting your default interface and potentially
> other small helpful things.

Good idea. Currently the Infobrowser shows an introduction on first startup. 
Maybe a wizard is better, or we can just use both. 

> 2. Playlist Defaults
> --------------------
>
> Currently, the first thing the user is presented with on the playlist is
> the file browser, which seems to fall outside of amaroK's general concept.
> Having a collection and then showing the user a file browser as the first
> thing seems a little silly. Maybe showing the collection in stead would
> make more sense.

I disagree. The Collection is unusable on first startup, since it's empty. 
Even if the wizard shows how to generate the Collection database, the user 
might still choose not to do it. Filebrowser is the natural and most 
straightforward interface to your existing music.

Besides, the default browser on first startup is the _Infobrowser_, not the 
Filebrowser.

> 3. Context Browser Colours
> --------------------------
>
> The current selection of colours in the Context Browser are not very
> contrast rich, and thus not easy to read for anyone with non-perfect
> vision. Suggest using the default colouring used in KDE, as per the example
> bellow:

Yeah good idea.

> 4. New Sidebar: Playlists
> -------------------------
>
> I hereby suggest a new sidebar for amaroK, containing playlists.

This is already being worked on by mxcl. The code has been in amaroK for quite 
some time, it's just dormant due to being unfinished. I suggest activating it 
now, since this will motivate us to finish it.

> 5. Remove File Browser Sidebar
> ------------------------------
>
> It seems to me that the file browser sidebar conflict with the Collection.
> I therefore suggest removing this, but adding an option that amaroK should
> ask wether it should add files to the collection when dropped onto the
> playlist from for example Konqueror. To work with this change, the
> behaviour of the "Add Media" button would add the media to the playlist,
> and then ask wether or not to add it to the collection also.

Disagree _strongly_. There are many music formats which don't provide metadata 
at all. amaroK caters to users of many different formats, like e.g. .sid 
or .mod files. You can't really put them into the Collection.

Besides, our Filebrowser implementation is extremely capable and useful, 
providing nifty features such as bookmarks and direct filesystem operations 
(deleting, renaming..)

> 6. Change "View tag information..." to "Edit tag information..."
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Of course, I know this will take some considerable amount of work, but it
> would benefit everybody in the end, as tagging files would be somewhat
> easier. Possible a multiple file tag editing feature could be implemented
> as well.

Fine with me. We're currently working on Musicbrainz support. This will be a 
tremendous help for tagging.
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