Amarok's UI Game part 2

[Mark Kretschmann]

-- Human readable, ADHD compliant version (reformatted Thomasz's text): --


I read your replays and sometimes i agree and sometimes not.

The first thing is the tabbar on the bottom. As i mentioned in  the README file,
these tabs arethere because i'm personally use them. This is simply
optional as the
Amarok's UI offers that possibility. :)

Next thing are monochromatic icons. I can't agree that an KDE app
should use KDE default icons.
Well, for things like the main toolbar (play/stop buttons etc) this is
ok. But for others like the
playlist or media browser toolbar this can be changed to default icons. Of
course you always can make them KDE theme dependent.

How? Simple. By default use the monochromatic icons that are provided
for plasmoids
configuration. You use plasma in Amarok, right? :) And if those
changes with plasma theme,
they change in Amarok, too, but they always stay monochromatic.

Next thing is "two colors mono icons". Well, i agree. I even want to
include this in
a mockup. Normal icon - gray, pressed -blue (kde colors dependent).
The media browser
search filed can be moved to the top. This was a experiment from my side :D Now
lets go back to the media browser toolbar. I think this is made good in my
mockups. Which ever menu you choose "Media Collections, Internet, Podcasts
etc" the menu will change button to those releted to current menu. That way,
it all stay in the same place what improves usability and will look cool :D

Of course with monochromatic icons. But there's a path that shows where you
currently are. And this one, like in the mocks should stay in the header. ;)

And remember, the tabs on the bottom are just simply mine setup :D

I'm glad that you like my work and hope you will use some ideas to include
them to Amarok. :)


Cheers, Tomasz.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
http://amarok.kde.org - http://www.fsfe.org