New toolbar navigation

[Bart Cerneels]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 17:45, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --

Use desaturated icons. You can animate to normal color on mouse-over.