I dislike the huge area being taken up by the amarok logo. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a cool logo, but I use amarok for its functionality and ease of use to play the music that i want to hear (often sifting out of a large amount of crud that has built its way into my music library).<br>
<br>I feel however that with amarok I'm forced into a single thread of usage, and in amarok 2 that is coupled with a feeling of claustrophobia, as all the controls are roughly twice the size of 1.4.7 (trying to fit in the same space), and that huge wasted space makes it worse. Also, I think that the media device should be grouped with the playlist area, not the media library. I usually transfer music from my library to my media device - not from my playlist. It would be great if this was a one step process. On that note, maybe the vertical tab bar could be changed to a horizontal tab - it could even be movable/dockable, like the GIMPs interface - that is brilliant for letting people lay stuff out how they like.<br>
<br>What I would like to see would be a bit more functional layout, like Winamp's 'Bento' skin - it seems to fit a lot more in a smaller space - without feeling claustrophobic.<br><br>I'm not too sure how to put this, but my main usage wish, which I have not found in ANY music player, is the ability to have a large playlist playing, such as all the music I haven't listened to, and then put that to the side (with the current track position) and play something else - another playlist, or even just a song. Afterwhich I just switch back to my main playlist and Amarok keeps playing from where it left off. Currently to achieve this I just use two different media players, but its a bit of a hassle don't you think?<br>
<br>Anyway, that was just a bit of a rant and hopefully some ideas people can take, or argue against, at will - what do you guys think?<br><br>Al<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Bart Cerneels <<a href="mailto:bart.cerneels@kde.org" target="_blank">bart.cerneels@kde.org</a>> 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>On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Reigo Reinmets <<a href="mailto:reigo.reinmets@hot.ee" target="_blank">reigo.reinmets@hot.ee</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> Now, i know lot's of people are going to hate me for doing this,<br>
> But i took the single most sexy looking player controls i've seen in my life<br>
> so far<br>
> And added it to the bottom of amaroK.. Now, ofcourse it has to be modified<br>
> etc.<br>
> but the overall layout of the buttons, now-playing text, time etc is imho<br>
> perfect.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.reinmets.ee/dont.shoot.png" target="_blank">http://www.reinmets.ee/dont.shoot.png</a><br>
><br>
> PS: I did modified the M$ layout a bit, moved the time, removed some<br>
> buttons, extended the now-playing text.<br>
> PS2: I didn't had photoshop nor Gimp nor other stuff installed at the<br>
> moment, so used M$ Paint to do this, /me @ work and can't be hasslede to<br>
> boot to linux atm.<br>
><br>
> Discuss, but don't shoot me :)<br>
><br>
> Reigo Reinmets<br>
><br>
</div>PANG!<br>
Just kidding, I like it very much. Even the background, which should<br>
be SVG, can be colorified according to the theme settings.<br>
I think I recognize these controls from an earlier iteration of<br>
amarok2, but I might be wrong. If so, I have no idea why it was<br>
replaced with the current controls. The new ones are, although very<br>
functional, not pretty to look at at all.<br>
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Bart<br>
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