I long for a fourth view method in theater view. Lineup is amazing but can waste too much space in certain cases. Thumbnails are great when there is only one item under the category.
FYI: I'm using the path as the method for finding. I have things classified under folders. For example: Spider-Man is under Movies/Spider-Man/Spider-Man [1, 2, 3]. So as you can see there would be 3 movies under Spider-man (plus the 2nd disc on some of them). So for Spider-Man, lineup works great. But for a movie where only one fits (no sequel or related movies), the lineup takes the whole line and wastes space.
I'm simply asking for ideas to blend the two and then we can ask for the new view mode.
I personally don't use the third mode that just lists files.
To start the conversation: I was thinking something that created basically two-thumbnail wide thumbnails (2 could be set to 2, 3, 4, etc.). Even better would be simply block elements that sorta filled in from top down. So single movie items would be a single unit of size while more filled categories would take 2, 3, or more thumbnail positions. If the next category is too wide, it would force the previous to fill horizontally (blank space) and then just drop to the next line.