"Viral Marketing"... >-)

[Leo Franchi]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
> On 17 February 2010 01:03, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking at web.de> wrote:
>> ... on the toolbar.
>>
>> Assuming we'll for the moment go with the inner skip icons*, i'd like to add a
>> little "hack" that is,
>> - detect whether the svg theme contains non or blank skip buttons and
>> - if not, reset the label alignments and enable dragging and animations.
>
> No, absolutely not. There should be no conditional painting logic
> based on an svg file. This makes maintainability a nightmare and our
> UI inconsistent. We have always been against the theming idea.
>
>>
>> Then, in some kind of "viral marketing", we could leak such (totally
>> unsupported, very exclusive and only for the illuminated) themes (w/o skip
>> icons) and (have others...) show off, so this becomes
>
> You cannot leak totally unsupported material as a member of the amarok
> team. This sends of bad signals to users.
>
>> - known
>> - easily accessible
>> - used
>> - and de facto: Standard =)
>> (well, that is... "hopefully")
>>
>> This is easy to do, would basically (temporarily) make the skin svg an
>> implicit config option and allows a soft migration towards a skip icon free
>> solution.
>
> We don't like implicit configuration options. We need a strong UI
> direction, and one which is for the benefit of the user and not there
> to cater to creative outlets and personal experiments. I think that
> the last month of discussion has often not had the end user in mind,
> but rather simply been a way to push a personal design prototype.

+1

As I said in my other email, we don't do [Amarok] OR [Amarok + CRAZY
HACKS OMG BLING!]. We want to produce just *one* well-designed user
interfaces that works for 99% of users, is as intuitive as possible,
and in general fulfills the demands of the user.

leo


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