New experimental toolbar by Thomas Luebking

[Lee Olson]

Attached is a different type of idea for the next / previous track buttons.

- Lee

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Dan Meltzer
<parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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