Improving Amarok Current Track Applet look

[Lee Olson]

Attached is revised one:

- removed play count, score, and last played icons and replaced them with
text
- moved the "By" and "On" text as suggested
- provided 2 examples to show different text spacing

- Lee

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:

> 2009/3/26 Lee Olson <leetolson at gmail.com>:
> > Attached is a mockup which builds upon William's idea. I've added 3
> > variations of the applet to the mockup so specific details can be
> discussed.
> > Please let me know if you would like to see something in particular.
> Thanks!
>
> For the playcount, rating and last played, I think it would be better
> to show actual text (like we did in 1.4).
> It difficult to understand what the numbers mean without context,
> especially because they are all on the same line.
>
> Can we do something which more akin to Amarok 1.4?
>
>
> >
> > - Lee
> >
> > 2009/2/17 Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org>
> >>
> >> 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<http://socios.aditel.org/%7Ewviana/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
> >> lfranchi at kde.org
> >> leonardo.franchi at tufts.edu
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