Elegance?!

[Nikhil Marathe]

On 7/13/10, Myriam Schweingruber <schweingruber at pharma-traduction.ch> wrote:
>> Along the similar lines as Ralf, I would also like the positions of
>> the context view and playlist to be exchanged. That would be a major
>> win.
>
> You can already do this, what we need to do is make the layout change
> possibilities more discoverable, and have a fall-back layout easy to
> apply for those who successfully screw up their layout when playing
> around.
> I don't want the Context View on the right by default, that would
> really look horrible (just tried that, a no-go for me, seriously, it
> looks totally unbalanced). We give the users the possibility to change
> the layout, but I am really not sure we should change the default one,
> it looks well balanced with lists on the left and right and widgets in
> the middle. Changing that would make it look asymmetric, and would go
> against the design discussions we had in May 2009 in Berlin with Nuno.
> If the users wants to change that for him/her, no problem, but I want
> the default one.

I have already done this on my system, I just wanted to see if it
could be made the default. But thanks for the reasons explaining why
it shouldn't be done.