Amarok Toolbar live-mockup - links inside

[Casper van Donderen]

Amazing! Finally more OGL geeks :-)

Casper
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> 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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