Created attachment 119378 [details] Very plain Genre view Genre view is my preferred base level of navigation, and I'm happy that Elisa has it. However it's currently a very plain view because each genre has the same icon, negating the purpose of using icons. Any view where each item has the same icon is generally not a good candidate for being an icon grid. I recommend either setting custom images for each genre, or else making it a list-style view and removing the icons. I would actually prefer to have all the genres listed in the sidebar, if possible. Lollypop does this and I really like it.
We could try to follow the approach in Lollypop of using some albums cover as a way to illustrate the genre. As for the view menu, I would really like to make it user configurable. As part of this, it would be nice to allow the user to have direct access to a category (genre, composers, artists, ...) through the menu.
(In reply to Matthieu Gallien from comment #1) > We could try to follow the approach in Lollypop of using some albums cover > as a way to illustrate the genre. That could work if it remains a grid view with large icons. Or if we make it a list view, then maybe we could even remove the icons, and the problem would go away. > As for the view menu, I would really like to make it user configurable. As > part of this, it would be nice to allow the user to have direct access to a > category (genre, composers, artists, ...) through the menu. +1, I would love that. I would make Genre the base level of organization and show all my genres in the view selector sidebar, which is how I have Lollypop set up.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2) > (In reply to Matthieu Gallien from comment #1) [...] > > As for the view menu, I would really like to make it user configurable. As > > part of this, it would be nice to allow the user to have direct access to a > > category (genre, composers, artists, ...) through the menu. > +1, I would love that. I would make Genre the base level of organization and > show all my genres in the view selector sidebar, which is how I have > Lollypop set up. As part of bringing back UPnP/DLNA support, doing exactly this is planned. See https://phabricator.kde.org/T11154
In order to coordinate and move forward, I have started https://phabricator.kde.org/T11155 .
*** Bug 473652 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Here’s an example of how one can use icons to representing different musical genres: https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-illustration-musical-genre-web-icons-user-interface-design-image88220057