New toolbar navigation

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Casey Link <unnamedrambler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I frankly have no idea about last.fm* but from the screenshots i saw, i assume
>> those functions were provided by the track actions (which i accidently added
>> all next to the slider in the first place)
>>
>> Ideally i'd attach those to the current track, resp. replace or use the
>> prev/next labels.
>>
>> You can assist me in the forefront:
>> the navigation used to be done by toolbuttonactions, right?
>> Is more information about the prev/next track provided by last.fm (and others)
>>
>> Love/ban etc. are simple buttons as well, yesno?
>
> Yes the are buttons.
> No they are not simple.
>
> The issue isn't last.fm buttons specifically. We have an abstract
> system for registering and displaying actions for the current track,
> this system is aptly named:  CurrentTrackActionsCapability
>
> Anyone (script, service, applet) can create and register a new
> CurrentTrackAction and specify the type of track it works with (local,
> stream, etc) and the icon is displayed on the toolbar for easy access.
> An example of this is the Last.fm Love/Ban actions, and the Bookmark
> action for bookmarking positions in tracks.
>
> The point is that any sort of toolbar must support these actions and
> at least a reasonable number (3-5).

One issue with that: Our existing icons for those actions simply look
horrible in the new toolbar (it's why I removed that).

So, at the very least, we would need to find new icons that fit in
with the toolbar style. And then find a place where they don't look as
if you glued a fly on your screen.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer, Software Engineer at Collabora Ltd
Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
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