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[Lukas]

Yep, thats what i had in mind :)

I remade mockup with fireworks (i'm not very used to gimp :( ).

This time without widgets/buttons.

On 11 February 2010 23:18, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking at web.de> wrote:
> Am Thursday 11 February 2010 schrieb Leo Franchi:
>> 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.
> I think he wants to slide out a solid widget over the timeslider (like sth.
> between a mac sheet and a dynamic toolbar or an autohiding panel)
>
> The Coolbar demo does similar - just that the label and the slider share the
> same space and the slider becomes active when you approach with the mouse -
> i'm drifting ;-)
>
> This could be a way to display the current track actions, but as long as we're
> talking about <=6 buttons/icons i guess they're better kept inline with the
> label (and thus closer to the text of the ct than to the other tracks, imho a
> major flaw in this sketch)
> Also they should dis/appear with the track and just be stressed on approach.
> (there's basic and deactivated support for them in the code, but uses
> QToolButtons what looks ... erhem :)
>
> In case we want a way to set those little fav. stars via the toolbar, this
> would however be an option to consider (but not on the entire length and
> rather not on hover - passive interaction should not lead to UI "relayouts")
>
> Another option would be to "sheet" the track whole edit dialog.
> (BUT: while Mac OS has support for this and i could fake it on X11/NETWM, i'm
> entirely unsure about windows, what could be a blocker)
>
> As for the look - let's say the "mock" has obviously sketch quality, what's
> fully ok to me =)
>
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Lukas
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