Improving Amarok Current Track Applet look

[Seb Ruiz]

2009/3/27 Lee Olson <leetolson at gmail.com>:
> Attached is revised one:
>
> - removed play count, score, and last played icons and replaced them with
> text
> - moved the "By" and "On" text as suggested
> - provided 2 examples to show different text spacing
>

Cool, that's much better. The icons were adding too much visual
distraction IMHO.
Maybe we could have the text inside the bounding box of the meta-info though.

Also, I don't think a little colour would go astray here ;) We're
desperately trying to get rid of the blanket gray. I'm thinking maybe
some highlights etc.

> - Lee
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> 2009/3/26 Lee Olson <leetolson at gmail.com>:
>> > Attached is a mockup which builds upon William's idea. I've added 3
>> > variations of the applet to the mockup so specific details can be
>> > discussed.
>> > Please let me know if you would like to see something in particular.
>> > Thanks!
>>
>> For the playcount, rating and last played, I think it would be better
>> to show actual text (like we did in 1.4).
>> It difficult to understand what the numbers mean without context,
>> especially because they are all on the same line.
>>
>> Can we do something which more akin to Amarok 1.4?
>>
>>
>> >
>> > - Lee
>> >
>> > 2009/2/17 Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org>
>> >>
>> >> On 17 Feb 2009, at 13:14, William Viana wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hey guys,
>> >>
>> >> I've been thinking of ways of improving Current Track visual look
>> >> because,
>> >> IMHO our current one could be much better. I was thinking about a
>> >> relayout
>> >> of the current one and small changes so it would look minimalistic and
>> >> more
>> >> elegant. Due to my lack of skills with inkscape this is the best I
>> >> could
>> >> get:
>> >>
>> >> http://socios.aditel.org/~wviana/amarok/currenttrack_mockup.png
>> >>
>> >> So, I was wondering if you could add a little bit of your talent and
>> >> skills to improve that mockup or even come with a totally different one
>> >> if
>> >> you wish. The only constraint is that we are probably going to be in a
>> >> freeze in about 2 or 3 weeks and it would be better that we implement
>> >> it
>> >> before the freeze.
>> >>
>> >> I like the mockup :) the size of the track is a bit large and glaring,
>> >> but
>> >> i really like the status bar on bottom over what we have now.l
>> >> the space under the albumcover seems to be wasted, however. maybe we
>> >> could
>> >> use it better?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> We have also introduced a new feature in the Current Track applet to
>> >> show
>> >> both the last played tracks and the favorite ones. For that we used a
>> >> tab
>> >> bar and the problem is that its default look doesn't seem to fit. Here
>> >> is
>> >> how it looks:
>> >>
>> >> On Linux using the default plasma theme:
>> >> http://mark.kollide.net/amarok2_plasma_tabbar.png
>> >>
>> >> On Mac OS X:
>> >> http://pwsp.cleinias.com/amarok.tabbar.applet.png
>> >>
>> >> The options would be to change the tab bar aspect by changing its
>> >> stylesheet or using another more appropriate widget for hiding
>> >> information.
>> >>
>> >> I'm looking forward to your suggestions (both artists and usability
>> >> experts).
>> >> --
>> >>     -William-
>> >>
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>> >> leonardo.franchi at tufts.edu
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