Attached is another mockup with some new additions.<br><br>- Lee<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Teo Mrnjavac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:teo.mrnjavac@gmail.com">teo.mrnjavac@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Dan Meltzer<br>
<<a href="mailto:parallelgrapefruit@gmail.com">parallelgrapefruit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Mark Kretschmann <<a href="mailto:kretschmann@kde.org">kretschmann@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Lee Olson <<a href="mailto:leetolson@gmail.com">leetolson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Seeing as the user interface has been a pretty hot topic lately, I decided I<br>
>>> would go ahead and create a mockup which should hopefully resolve some of<br>
>>> the issues stated in the "About Amarok's interface design" thread.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Please take a look at the attachment (which contains various minor changes,<br>
>>> which are not quite perfect yet) and reply to this thread with ideas /<br>
>>> comments that we can use in the future of Amarok's design. Please keep in<br>
>>> mind that this is a long-term project and will be worked on step-by-step to<br>
>>> achieve something that a majority can agree with.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hopefully this mockup will provide as a good visual that we can discuss and<br>
>>> step-by-step, create a nice interface without completing another full<br>
>>> overhaul.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks for your mockup. I have to say I much prefer Nuno's original<br>
>> "overlapping" design for the control buttons. It gives Amarok 2 a<br>
>> unique look, almost like a logo. And I don't see major usability<br>
>> issues with it.<br>
><br>
> There was a commenter on the amarok insider article that took a good<br>
> deal of time to detail the issues with the buttons, as well as other<br>
> artwork related issues... I'll just link it, rather than copying what<br>
> he said. <a href="http://amarok.kde.org/en/comment/reply/565/11283" target="_blank">http://amarok.kde.org/en/comment/reply/565/11283</a><br>
>><br>
>> Also I prefer the current look of the slider widgets.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Again I would like to remind everyone that right now is not the<br>
>> perfect time to dicuss such things. We are very very close to _the_<br>
>> most important Amarok release in years, and we have our hands full<br>
>> with fixing the remaining showstopper bugs. I think we should all<br>
>> focus on that right now.<br>
><br>
> This is long term discussion, as lee pointed out. We seem to like to<br>
> change the UI around in amarok by just throwing stuff in there and<br>
> tweaking it, drowning out objectors by saying "but its a work in<br>
> progress!!" This method allows us to come up with a solution before<br>
> it gets implemented, so that everyone knows where we are going and how<br>
> it's going to get there. I don't see anything wrong with starting the<br>
> dicussion now, and then not acting on it until after 2.0...<br>
>><br>
<br>
</div></div>Oh hell yeah finally separated buttons.<br>
How about making them smaller and putting them on top as they were<br>
half a year ago?<br>
Then there would be some room for analyzers in the top left above the<br>
progress bar and some more room for love/ban/buy/whatever buttons in<br>
the top right along with the volume slider.<br>
Like this:<br>
||| analyzers ||| OOOO oooo volume<br>
================================<br>
<br>
Also I need to restate that I think it would look better and be more<br>
consistent with the oxygen style to have white background for the<br>
playlist and the collection.<br>
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