extragear/multimedia/amarok/src

[Mark Kretschmann]

On 4/26/08, Maximilian Kossick <maximilian.kossick at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
>  <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > For the record I think Amarok with out the little bit of color
>  >  provided by that blue line is just a boring, bland pile of gray. That
>  >  little bit of contrast was really what made the theme work for me, on
>  >  a light color scheme...
>  >
>  >  I can accept that people dont like the theme, but the sane way of
>  >  handling that would be to come up with something better instead of
>  >  just tearing this one apart. For me now, it would really not make a
>  >  difference if we removed the svgs all together as that would also just
>  >  be bland and gray.
>
> I agree with Nikolaj that Amarok is a bring pile of grey now and I
>  think it was not better with that blue line.
>  Removing the svgs is a bad idea. I'm sure that we are going to use
>  svgs, we just need good svgs first.
>
>  What we need is an artistic vision for the look of A2, given the
>  constraints that we have discovered so far (more or less fixed layout,
>  svg rendering speed issues, colour scheme adaptability). I do not
>  think that any of us coders can provide that vision (well, mxcl's
>  mockup is *very* pretty in my opinion, so there's at least one coder
>  with some kind of artistic vision, but we need something which is
>  actually implementable now)

I agree with Max. That's why I have started the Call for Artists.

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Mark