New toolbar navigation

[Leo Franchi]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Lukas <1lukas1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey, why meta info can't be displayed on the playback slider when
>> mouse is over track's name in the toolbar?
>>
>> It is perfectly rational, since, when you are willing to change
>> track/get more info about previous/next track, its less than 0.01%
>> that you want to readjust position of current track. And even if so,
>> moving cursor anywhere else in Amarok would return "normal slider"
>>
>> Space is precious, and i don't know any reason, why it cant be reused
>> in this case.
>>
>> Even more ???, there could be provided some widgets/buttons, like
>> change rating, Love on lastFm etc. If I didn't miss something,
>> possible positions for those actions are still under research.
>>
>> On 8 February 2010 01:02, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
>>> 3. The text cycles very slowly when the mouse is not hovering, but
>>> very quickly when the mouse moves over the labels. This means that
>>> clicking on these labels is a bit useless, since they change so
>>> quickly when I see something I want to click.
>>>
>>> 4. The text labels have useless information: why show the year and track number?
>
> I prefer to be honest. So here goes: This mockup looks horrible.

Clicking on the slider jumps the track position. Putting stuff on the
slider mixes up the metaphor, and just gets confusing. What if you
miss the icon, and hit the background of the icon, over the slider
itself? I think this is a bad idea.

leo


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