Infobar

[poelzi]

This PR adds a Infobar into the library to show additional information about track selection and later notifications that are not
well presented on the table view. This is the successor of #1656

The infobar has currently 3 widgets:

• crates
• playlists
• history

Each widgets shows buttons for each entry. The widget itself has 3 visibility states:

• collapsed (only the button of the category in a grey symbol)
• visible (the widget has some medium size but grows if necessary)
• extended (widget takes as much space as possible)

todo

• safe state
• context menu
• add to other skins
• finish styling

For later PRs:

• Add configuration panel to allow full configuration of the status bar
  • maybe DND of elements
• which widgets
• order of widgets
• Add more exotic but useful widgets
  • free space
• crate/playlist colors
• when notification infrastructure lands, show the last message for n seconds

[Be-ing]

If you move analysis progress here we could finally get rid of the clumsy Analysis library feature.

[Holzhaus]

Thank, could be useful for displaying crates/playlists and maybe custom tags.

I disagree this that this should be used for notifications though.

The main reason why I think notifications are needed is to get rid of the popup dialogs that block the view. For a ample, if a controller mapping has a bug in an input handler. Or when we finally have hotplug support, we'd probably have a dialog "You connected device X, do you want to set it up". This is annoying, which is why I think a notification area is the way to go. A status bar isn't suitable for this use case IMHO.

[poelzi]

It already shows crates and playlists.
@Holzhaus don't get me wrong, what you are building is exactly right. The status bar is not for managing notification etc.
But when a new notification happens, for 2-3 seconds the message is displayed there and then it switches back to the normal display. The same goes when I navigate a menu, the statusbar should display the help description of the entry.
I don't like to have popups when new notifications happen, I like a icon that displays if something is running and how many unread notifications I have. It should open on shortcut or press, but to no time I want to see something popping up with no user interaction. It might be that it laps over something that is important right now, like a waveform while doing a transit.
Using the statusbar for some seconds to display to new message is the right place for me and should be at least an option later.

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[Russe]

I wonder weather it's possible to display information at status bar like a file manager? Here are some examples:

• number of tracks in current library view
• number of selected tracks in current library view

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