[Amarok] rtl awareness, bg gradient, prev/next watermarks +

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking at web.de> wrote:
>> Am Monday 08 February 2010 schrieb Téo Mrnjavac:
>>
>>> Did you try with a slightly colored gradient maybe, or another pattern?
>> I've tried a lot of things ;-) and they basically all fail on esp. the oxygen
>> style It has a strong top light glow, why i e.g. had to make the gradient
>> _really_ translucent, otherwise everything looks out of place.
>>
>> Sunken gradients didn't work for similar reasons as they either break the
>> light model or just flatten that area (compensating the light)
>>
>> Personally i prefer color manipulation (in particular invasion...) but that's
>> not the point :-)
>>
>> I think the main goal is to set the toolbar away from the lower area and this
>> will always look dull as long as those rounded frames remain.
>> (have a look at the top of the splitters, they trigger little jumps bedcause
>> of the rounded adjacent area)
>>
>> What could (or rather should) be done is to invoke the bg color (the gradient
>> runs to black what triggers the metallic look in leo's shot)
>
> Gradient:
>
> I think it might work out if it were much more subtle. Can we
> experiment with that?
>
>
> Buttons:
>
> Sorry, but I think those "Prev/Next" buttons look like they came
> straight from Star Trek. Can't we use something simple, like Enrico
> had proposed? Simple is often more effective than design overkill.

Hey Enrico,

is there any way you could send us these simple "Arrow" icons you made
in that mockup for the toolbar? Or maybe even a patch?

I really think that your original mockup (from a few weeks ago) was
the best proposal so far. Would love to see that in action (alignment
of text, and little arrow icons).


Thanks, Mark.

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