About Amarok's interface design

[Kevin Funk]

Okay, some people already know my opionion on that (sorry markey, to bring it 
up again, forgive me)
To those who dont: I'm a bit disappointed of Amarok's Interface in its current 
state.

The main point is: The overall look of Amarok doesnt reflect KDE's appearance. 
To be more specific on special issues which (in my eyes) are just "wrong", 
here's a list with some of these.
(Please keep in mind that i am referring to the normal Oxygen style/colors in 
this whole mail, that is gray window bg, white list bg, blue highlight and so 
on. You know how its supposed to look.)

So here is the list (sorted by importance) and my very own (subjective) 
proposals to fix them:
* Just too much gray everywhere (tm). All the tabs and the playlist use 
transparent (window bg) background which should be white (list bg). Please 
dont say it looks shit with white bg, have a look at other apps. You dont want 
to have KMail in overall gray, do you?
* The seekbar content is gray, too and uses some very weird widget style. I'd 
prefer a normal QSlider. I am referring to Dragon Player's implementation e.g. 
- it looks _a lot_ better and saves vertical space if we put seekbar and 
volume bar in one line.
* The current track applet uses oversized font and oversized icons. Normal 
font size and 16px icons would do it.
* The tabs on the left ("Internet", "Playlists", "Files", ...) are also 
modded, I'd prefer the normal style what is used by Kate e.g. - i know they 
dont stretch vertically but I dont think thats an issue. Another point: The 
current ones dont have hover animation.

Disclaimer:
I don't wanna blame anyone. I know some people already invested a lot of work 
to tweak the Amarok UI but I think it could be done much better.
Further, i cant implement this on my own (lacking coding skills) nor do I have 
the motivation to do so as long there are people who are against these changes 
and are comfortable with the current situation.

If you dont like this, consider this mail as a motivation to improve the UI.

Thanks for your time, these were just my 2 cents

PS: To those who are pissed off by this email (again). It's going to be the 
very last time I even think about the UI if there's no positive feedback.

--Kevin