Bug 190019

Summary: Make text on current track applet slide when it doesn't fit the screen
Product: [Applications] amarok Reporter: Augusto Leite <leite_augusto>
Component: generalAssignee: Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: bugzilla
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Augusto Leite 2009-04-19 03:24:44 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Most of the times, the name of the artist or the music name doesn't fit the Current track applet space. It is something like:

You don't know...
By Eldar Djangirov
on Live at The Blues...


It would be great if these not complete texts just slide from right to left with a nice animation, just like on some car CD/mp3 players and on some ipods. 

It would become something like:

You became something like:

You don't know (1)
ou don't know w (2)
...
know what love   (3)
what love is Yo  (4)

And so on

RSSnow already uses this kind of animation...

Since sometimes you can't read the complete name of the music or artist on the playlist itself, I think it would be a very elegant solution.

Well, just an idea... hope you like it!

Keep up the excellent work guys.
Comment 1 Simon ESNEAULT 2009-06-18 19:58:27 UTC 
SVN commit 983651 by sesneault:

Change from simple QGraphicsSimpleTextItem to TextScrollingWidget for the album, artist and title
These 3 items now slide on mouse hover when the text is ellided (aka applet to small)
BUG:190019


 M  +16 -14    CurrentTrack.cpp  
 M  +4 -3      CurrentTrack.h  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=983651
Comment 2 Janet 2009-09-26 17:29:13 UTC 
Just wanted to say thank you for this one! A very nice feature I just discovered by accidently "mousing" over the title in the middle pane.