Hi guys,

Just to let you know that I submitted a merge request with a new basic applet, enabling to display all albums of the collection in a cover grid view.
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100841/
comments welcome !

Comments anyone ?

I like it; it's very attractive. What exactly does it DO?

Thanx !

Well, it's just another way to browse the collection.
Only implemented double-click by now, which appends the album to playlist, but I guess we could implement all "classical" functionalities from the album tree right click menu , although, as an applet IMHO it should remain simple/basic.

bump...

Hey, manuw2009.

We're just about to release v2.4.2. We'll have a look at your patch for the next release. It's still needs some minor polishing. (As stated on the merge request).

Still, many thanks for your contribution. You're welcome!

hi,

Could anyone help on this topic ?
I think the missing cover problem as stated in the merge request is only a matter of delivering the image file in the merge request diff.
it works quite well at my end

Bump...
OK, here is my proposal :
please integrate this to playground for testing purpose

with large collections it would be helpful to be able to filter using album or artist - something akin to that found in the cover tool

grouping might be interesting also - example: years where a line break and the year differentiate demarcate the years

Hi,

It's been a while...
Can't believe this has never been released...
I have been using this ever since at my end

Manu, the code is in playground since quite some time. Also, as the reviewboard indicates this still needs some polishing to be pushed to master.

Hi,

Yes, it is in playground, but I think the main issue was that my original submitted merge was missing some resource files which prevented covers from appearing.
Could anybody test the playground version and update their views ?
It's working fine at my end (I am using both coverbling & covergrind compiled from playground, 2.5 version)

Hi,
It's been more than 2 years.
And I have been using the applets (both coverflow & covergrid from playground) with no issue at all.
Isn't anybody willing to move them to amarok ?
I haven't heard from or seen any potential replacement since then ("graphic" view of all albums in collection)...

Hi, it seems that the covergrid applet was somehow forgotten in playground, sorry about that.

I have some comments and suggestions for behaviour of the applet (+ I haven't studied the code yet), review board would be a better place to discuss these, plus it is *the* place to gather opinions from other developers. Would you mind reposting it there (the updated version, perhaps the one from playground, targetted at current Amarok git master)?

Hi,

Sorry but it's been a while and I have forgotten how that works (submitting merge requests was a pain if I remember properly)
My view is that I was building straight from git both applets playground versions
as here :
https://launchpad.net/~manu-wagner/+archive/ppa-amarok-experimental