Buttons, was: About Amarok's interface design (follow up)

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

> Yay - these are great! That's hands down the best button mockup I've
> seen so far :-)
> 
> I don't mind the plainness. The buttons look both elegant and
> functional, IMHO, which is perfect for a default theme. Just one minor
> detail: how about always showing the border between the "stop" and
> "next" buttons (that becomes apparent when hovering), making it look
> like two separate buttons that are neatly placed next to each other?
> I'm not sure that that would be better, but I think it could look
> quite nice.
> 
> I don't mind the asymmetry at all - in fact, I rather like it. A tiny
> bit of asymmetry makes the whole thing look more interesting, I think.
> 
> /Personally/, I generally don't think that symmetry is important
> enough to sacrifice other aspects (such as a good utilisation of
> screen real estate, or reasonable usability) for it. In consequence, I
> prefer 2.2.0's toolbar layout to the one of the current git master;
> the latter just leads to too much wasted space on either side of the
> playback control buttons. That's solved nicely in Lee's mockups,
> though. So, if we only have four buttons (and we don't need more than
> that), and one of them ("play") is the most important one and
> therefore bigger than the others, I really have no problem whatsoever
> with the asymmetry that's induced by this. On the contrary.
> 
> Considering that the buttons Amarok currently uses are the default
> Oxygen icons (at least, JuK and Dragon player use them as well), one
> thing I especially like about these latest mockups is that even though
> the buttons introduce their very own style, they still retain "visual
> compatibility" with the KDE default theme, so that they let Amarok
> stand out as the graphically most advanced application, without
> looking out of place. Seriously, Lee, I'm impressed!

You took the words right out of my mouth. I totally agree!
> 
> Cheers
> Jakob
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