Use fancy tooltips

[Mathias Brodala]

GTK provides us ways to spice up tooltips. This should be used for items in the collection pane as well as the tray icon tooltip.

Collection pane:
This one could display the cover art, album title and year, total length and count of tracks as well as possibly an ellipsized overview of the tracks.

Tray icon:
This one could display the title, artist and album of the current track. Also the cover and the current progress could be put here.

For all of this performance evaluations would need to take place first. No matter the outcome, a solution as plugin instead of going into core could also be considered.

[reacocard (reacocard)]

I'd also like to note that as this will definitely involve using the custom widget support in gtk tooltips, we should abstract that widget out into a separate class that can be used by all of these cases and probably by our built-in OSD as well. Doing so will help ensure UI consistency across these various components and reduce code duplication.

I would think that doing this as a plugin would be fairly difficult, though making any such system be extensible by plugins should be quite doable. As for performance, we can gracefully degrade the level of information shown I think - eg. if too many entries are selected in the collection pane, we cut off some of the information and simply display "and 123 others" or something like that.

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

Yep, I was planing along those lines. Here are some mockups. Let me know what you think.

[reacocard (reacocard)]

Those mockups look awesome! Can't wait to see it in the player itself. :)

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

Single track tooltip is in r2978 now.

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

Track list tooltips are available but won’t be enabled for the collection right now. Performance issues have to be resolved first.