Yeah, that should work. In the same way you can chose in album & tracks view whether the fields to appear bellow or on the right of the artwork be able to chose whether the fields in artwork view are inside or outside the artwork.
Yeap. Same thinking. I proposed a idea for a potential new design, but it doesn't mean deleting the old one. I just think the new one would be a interesting alternative to choose.
Besides that, another proposal that I think it would be really quick to do. Artworks usually don't fit exactly in the pannel size:
In this case, for example, let's say the artwork size would be 125 px. Let's imagine pannel's width would be here 600 px. And dividing the pannel witdth between the artwork size it would give, I don't know, let's say, well, 4.8. So it's not enough to include 5 albums per row, but 4 albums are shown with a big border.
So, if the chosen artwork size is 125 px, and the pannel's width 600 px, what means 4 albums per row, why not displaying artwork with size 600 px /4 = 150px. Of course, if you shrink the pannel to, for example, 550 px, they could be displayed with 550 px/4 = 137px. That way, albums would always fit in pannel's size.