New experimental toolbar by Thomas Luebking

[Thomas Lübking]

I'm no fan of either version :-\

- In general this triggers a misuse (users _will_ try to point and click the 
tiny icons (esp. with the second attempt) run a usertest if you don't trust me 
;-)

- Ericos original suggestion somehow "breaks" the horizontal layout.

- Both introduce at least one "inverted" "icon next to text" toolbuttons what 
looks weird.

- Also this interferes with the drag feature (esp. those sunken icons)

If we can skip the hook-arrows, i've attached a mock for a different direction 
(but i think we'd also need to adjust the look of the progress slider to get 
the entire area back less "heavy" - i'f you're interested, i'll implement this 
and seek for a "lighter" slider appearance)

Cheers,
Thomas

Am Sunday 31 January 2010 schrieb Mark Kretschmann:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Edward Hades <edward.hades at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> 
wrote:
> >> See
> >> Enrico's attached screenshot, I think it makes a big difference in
> >> usability and discoverability.
> >
> > How about moving arrows outerer?
> 
> This looks nice, but I think it might introduce a subtle ambiguity:
> 
> The arrows appear to point to something at the borders. With Enrico's
> version, they "pointed at" the actual track that would be played. So I
> think Enrico's version might be slightly better, usability wise.
> 

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