About Amarok's interface design (follow up)

[Téo Mrnjavac]

And one more thing... See the buttons? They are not overlapping! Yay!
And they look very nice!
leeo++

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 14:10, Téo Mrnjavac <teo at getamarok.com> wrote:
> Wow!
> You totally get my vote for this. I like a lot the flat-but-not-flat
> look, without oxygen's thick round borders that I always hated with a
> passion.
> We might tone a bit down the transparency of the three panels to
> improve text readability, but other than that, I love it.
> Cheers
> Téo
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:31, Lee Olson <leetolson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Attached are a few mockups exploring some different ideas to improve the
>> overall look. I tried to keep most elements quite similar to what is
>> currently available.
>>
>> These 3 mockups demonstrate the idea of using a simple gradient background
>> image with a simple gradient design (stripes in this case), layered on top
>> of the background.
>>
>> The gradient background is colored, which results in a different appearance
>> throughout. Depending on the background color, the text color is set as
>> either black or white (white on darker bakground, black on lighter
>> background).
>>
>> By carefully setting the transparency on Media Sources, Playlist, and
>> Context, only modification of text color needed to be made when changing
>> background colors.
>>
>> When looking at the 'gray' screenshot, you will notice a different Applets
>> navigation. This allows selection of a specific applet, similar to what is
>> currently available in the context toolbar. You'll also notice the ' + ' and
>> ' X ' buttons, those are for adding / removing applets.
>>
>> The 'bluegray' and 'blackgray' screenshots show the use of different colored
>> backgrounds.
>>
>> Please let me know if you have any other suggestions. Thanks!
>>
>> - Lee
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Kevin Funk <krf at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I did a concept sketch on this like 6 months ago (just as personal mind
>>> >  game)
>>> >
>>> > http://cloudcity.sourceforge.net/amarok/#playlist
>>> >
>>> > If anyone is interested in this direction i could work on a mockup
>>> > and/or
>>> >  play (together with Nikolaj) on the playlist itemdelegate.
>>>
>>> Mockups are always good, and better than thousand words.
>>> I'd say give it a go!
>>>
>>> --
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