New experimental toolbar by Thomas Luebking

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
> On 1/26/2010 6:22 AM, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
>> <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Lets just merge this thing, have a go at polishing and see what
>>> happens. We can still keep the current main toolbar around for a while
>>> as a fallback in case we decide not to ship with 3G.
>>
>> Indeedly. Can we merge this ASAP, please? Cause we will probably need
>> some string changes, and the longer we wait, the closer we'll get to
>> string freeze...
>>
>> Is anyone totally against merging it? Otherwise let's please just do it.
>
> I didn't at all like the initial design but moving the next/prev songs
> with the arrows closer to the middle helps tremendously.
>
> I still can't help but wonder if the best step is to make a better slim
> toolbar -- and at Camp KDE many of both us devs and users expressed
> dissatisfaction with the need to click on the volume button to change it
> (preferring the 1.4-style slider, where you can mouse-wheel-up/down).
> But this certainly helps gets rid of the largest issue of the fatter
> toolbar, which is all the completely unused space.

I'm sorry, but I think making the "Slim Toolbar" default would be a
very bad move. It's great as an alternative (as it is right now), but
you can't exactly say that it looks cool, and a media player is also a
bit about looks. This isn't Word, after all ;)

In that light, I think it would be wise to choose something fancy like
the "3G" as default. "Slim Toolbar" is still available, after all.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
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