New experimental toolbar by Thomas Luebking

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Enrico Ros <enrico.qt at email.it> wrote:
> On Friday 22 January 2010 11:04:26 Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>
> wrote:
>> > Thomas Luebking has created a new alternative toolbar ("3G") for
>> > Amarok, which does some rather interesting things. I've just checked
>> > it out, and I found it surprisingly good. There are some usability
>> > issues and visual glitches remaining, but I'm sure they could be
>> > tweaked a bit.
>> >
>> > Here is the Merge Request, if you want to check it out (also check the
>> > comments in there):
>> >
>> > http://gitorious.org/amarok/amarok/merge_requests/2259
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm attaching a screenshot of the new toolbar in action.
>>
>> Thomas was kind enough to clean up his commits a bit, and I just
>> tested it here. I could build and run it successfully.
>
> Tested locally. Feels really good! The best toolbar imho, even if initially
> you have to get used to that.

Agreed.

And to be honest: I'm tired of maintaining the existing default
toolbar (it exposes some strange bugs that we could never fully
resolve), and I think something "fresh" could really be good.

The "3G" toolbar certainly needs some more polishing, but that should
be doable, and I tend to think that making this the default could be
best, if we can work out the remaining kinks. It's a radical change,
but then, the world around us is changing radically, and Amarok
development has always been a bit extravagant and risky ;)

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
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