Amarok Toolbar live-mockup - links inside

[Enrico Ros]

Hello,
  I got so inspired by reading Thomas Lübking's UI proposal, that I had to 
fire up the editor! Since I'm a kind of {QGraphics*, Q*Animation, OpenGL} 
freak, I worked on a "live mockup" of the toolbar.

  http://www.enricoros.com/mirror/coolar-animated-1.ogv

Code *Qt 4.6 Only*:
  
  git clone git://gitorious.org/qt4-gadgets/coolar.git


Here are some points about this kind of design:
 
 * this is a quick (4 hours) and incomplete experiment, made in a rush. I just 
want You to get Inspired by this, by no means I propose to get this into 
Amarok ;-)
 
 * here we present a Toolbar that can fit desktop-sized players as well as 
iphone-sized ones

 * Qt 4.6 is needed; it can be made to work with 4.5, but I'm just not 
interested into that right now

 * CPU load @ 50fps @ 800Mhz: 20% with raster, 5% with OpenGL Acceleration. 
and there is room for improvement (I leave OpenGL acceleration as an exercise 
to the reader (it's a +2 lines patch))

 * the code structure 'frees' designers: they can make roto-zomming analyzers, 
Thomas's 4D layout, good looking and informative track struts that slide-in 
and out when you press prev/next


That's all for now. I hope to get you thinking about this kind of approach, 
that I think is better than widget-constrained ones. I'm really fascinated by 
Thomas ideas, and I think Amarok deserves some gui improvements.

I'll go back working on Fotowall unless you're interested into this kind of 
user interface, or request some changes, or infect me with crazy and colorful 
ideas ;-)

Enrico
 
 
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