extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/browsers

[Martin Aumueller]

What feature in the UI does indicate that the navigation within the browser 
levels should be left <-> right? Perhaps it makes sense to move down <-> up 
and put a button on top that lifts you up one level?

On Thursday 16 July 2009 18:50:21 Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Bart Cerneels<bart.cerneels at kde.org> 
wrote:
> > I find myself in complete agreement with Nikolaj here, but I do think
> > why markey thinks this is better.
> > The problem is:
> > 1. It's ugly: we already have plenty of that.
> > 2. even though it looks like a big hit target. Actually using it takes
> > a bit more effort then it should relative to it's pixel size because
> > it's to narrow.
> > 3. And this is important for markey: It doesn't work well on
> > touchscreens because
> >  a. There is no bezel, making hitting it just as hard as any other
> > widget with the same width.
> >  b. There is a bezel and it's to big (usually to high of the surface
> > of the screen) blocking the pixels next to it for up to a fingertip.
> > The only solution for that is making the widget wider, see 1.
>
> Yep, I certainly agree that it doesn't look good :)
>
> So it can't stay the way it is now, that's for sure. But I'm not happy
> with the usability of the breadcrumb alone - you have to move the
> mouse a lot, especially if you're near the bottom of the screen. One
> thing we could do is add keyboard shortcuts for forward and backward
> (e.g. Ctrl + Left/Right), but a quicker way for navigating with the
> mouse would be nice too.