New Collection View Request: Album View (mockup included)

[Adam Olsen]

I am very fond of quodlibet's album view. So in this mockup I've created a simplified version that I believe will work well within exaile. This feature can be selectable from the "View" menu: just add a "Collections" entry with choices for "Tree" and "Album" views.

The mockup speaks for itself, but basically the new view would be just like in quodlibet. You browse by an album list, with each album's artwork icon on the left side, and the album information on the right. I've cut it down to 2 lines, from quodlibet's 4. The extra track info and total time info is nice, but the smaller size makes for quicker browsing.

The options at the top would offer alphabetical sorting choice between Albums and Artists.

Mockup isn't perfect, but I think it looks nice and gets the idea across. It'll look even better with exact formating.

No rush, but I think this would be quite an enhancement to exaile.
Thanks!

This ticket was migrated from the old trac: re #145

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

The way QuodLibet does this is quite sane:

1) set up a handler for the expose-event of the gtk.TreeView
2) in that handler set a timeout to prevent useless refresh
3) at timeout, get the range of visible rows (gtk.TreeView.get_visible_range())
4) retrieve cover art for these visible rows
5) update pixbuf column starting from the middle of the visible rows

[helmuthdu (helmuthdu)]

Maybe create an option to customise collection view, something like this mockup bellow maybe?