Future UI Discussion

[Lee Olson]

Attached is another mockup with some new additions.

- Lee

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Teo Mrnjavac <teo.mrnjavac at gmail.com>wrote:

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