Improving Amarok Current Track Applet look

[Leo Franchi]

On 17 Feb 2009, at 13:14, William Viana wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I've been thinking of ways of improving Current Track visual look  
> because, IMHO our current one could be much better. I was thinking  
> about a relayout of the current one and small changes so it would  
> look minimalistic and more elegant. Due to my lack of skills with  
> inkscape this is the best I could get:
>
> http://socios.aditel.org/~wviana/amarok/currenttrack_mockup.png
>
> So, I was wondering if you could add a little bit of your talent and  
> skills to improve that mockup or even come with a totally different  
> one if you wish. The only constraint is that we are probably going  
> to be in a freeze in about 2 or 3 weeks and it would be better that  
> we implement it before the freeze.

I like the mockup :) the size of the track is a bit large and glaring,  
but i really like the status bar on bottom over what we have now.l

the space under the albumcover seems to be wasted, however. maybe we  
could use it better?


> We have also introduced a new feature in the Current Track applet to  
> show both the last played tracks and the favorite ones. For that we  
> used a tab bar and the problem is that its default look doesn't seem  
> to fit. Here is how it looks:
>
> On Linux using the default plasma theme:
> http://mark.kollide.net/amarok2_plasma_tabbar.png
>
> On Mac OS X:
> http://pwsp.cleinias.com/amarok.tabbar.applet.png
>
> The options would be to change the tab bar aspect by changing its  
> stylesheet or using another more appropriate widget for hiding  
> information.
>
> I'm looking forward to your suggestions (both artists and usability  
> experts).
> -- 
>     -William-
>
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Leo Franchi				(650) 704 3680
Tufts University 2010

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leonardo.franchi at tufts.edu

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