Amarok/Archive/Proposals/Some ideas for the post 2.1 CV

Subject : Propositions/ideas for Amarok 2 context view for post 2.1 release.

General

Ability to resize each applet vertically (go Leo go :))
Ability to lock some of the applet on the top. So that when we choose to switch from one to the other, the top ones are still visible. When an applet is lock, it goes on the top, and hence the relative button on the bottom toolbar disappear. Each applet should have a locker.
Restore a vertical animation between the transition from one to an other applet fro eye candyness (we don't use enough of plasma possibilities in the CV :))
Ability to move from one to an other applet by simply hovering the bottom toolbar button

More Applets

Vidéo-clip applet DONE : display a list of video-clip relative to the current playing song from youtube, dailymotion and vimeo, and also render the video directly inside the CV
Last.fm applet : concentrate “similar artist”, “similar songs” and “most listened song of the band” in a 3 colomn layout, showing 8 items each. Query the database for each item, if we have locally playable songs, the item is clickable and the action is to append the song(s) to the playlist. Also find a way to display the score of the similarity (Aphex Twin is 85 % similar to Autechre)
Meta-Applets or web information applet. Maybe extend the wikipedia applet to query text info from discogs, allmusic, last.fm, myspace ?
A Cloud label applet : Labelling songs was nice in amarok 1.X but never made it in 2.X. Would be nice to reimplement it with the main interface as a tag cloud applet, similar to the one on the right of dolphin panel when using nepomuk tags.
Photos applets : Dynamically (data-enginely) fetch some live photos from flickr and picasa public web album DONE, only from Flickr b/c picasa has not so many picture yet
A Cover-bling applet, with a search box. Just display the result of the query in a nice way, with album cover-art for those who like eye candy; If possible implement it without using open-gl but using QGraphicsScene/Plasma only for re-usability (maybe it's already done)

Please consider making this as a view for the collection browser in stead. The context view is a nice thing, but it's just that - context. Not a place to browse your collection :) That said, having coverbling as an alternative view for the Albums applet... :) --Leinir 15:24, 30 June 2009 (UTC)