New experimental toolbar by Thomas Luebking

[Dan Meltzer]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking at web.de> wrote:
> 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)

My objection to this mockup is that it looks more like super stylized
tabs instead of buttons.  I would not expect from looking at those
items on screen that I should press them to change the track.  I don't
know what I'd expect them to do, but I don't think it improves
anything.
>
> 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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