Re: [Traverso-devel] CD Cover

[Nicola Döbelin]

Am Freitag, 8. Februar 2008 20.26:54 schrieb Remon:
> > I like the idea of allowing exporting the track list in multiple
> > formats (text, html, csv, etc), but I don't think we should try to
> > create a built-in cover creator/editor.
>
> You're absolutely right about that, it's just that the current solution
> prints to 'a html file somewhere' with which it is not possible to print it
> directly to a suitably sized format on paper. (~ 120 x 120 mm)
>
> And since we do have all the information needed, I thought it might make
> sense to render the html with an added background to a pixmap, and send
> that to QPrinter :)

I like the idea, and I actually thought about it when I added the html export. 
But as Ben mentioned, I wouldn't try to add a full featured cover designer, 
users would only bitch and moan about missing features. The stuff with the 
CSS template sounds cool, though.

> Sure, if I didn't have wasted 2 hours today to print that #&(address@hidden 
> cover
> from within the Gimp hehe.

I prefer Inkscape or OpenOffice Draw.

> clip move'. Another one is the Marker editor dialog, which is very broken.
> I like to add an < E > on Markers itself, which shows it's Edit dialog to
> modify its position(?) and description.
> Another one: [ M ] which does: add Marker _and_ move, since I happened to
> add markers with < M > but wanted to adjust its position by a tiny bit, and
> to do so I had to point to the marker moving the mouse to the timeline,
> result: counter productive :(

I agree that the Marker dialog is broken. But when you choose another 
solution, please keep in mind that the CD text (per track) is usually added 
when the CD is more or less finished. That's why I added the dialog, I wanted 
to have a central place to edit the CD text and a simple way to copy 
the "Performer" and "Composer" fields etc. to all tracks.

Btw. I think markers should snap to snap positions, too (or do they already?).

Nic