Revert layout change, releasing beta1?

[Gábor Lehel]

On 6/10/06, Mark Kretschmann <markey at web.de> wrote:
> On Saturday 10 June 2006 01:06, Ian Monroe wrote:
> > I've been away from my computer and thus amaroK for the last couple of
> > weeks (will be reunited tomorrow evening, hooray!) so my opinion
> > doesn't count for much. But I was talking to Alex and had an idea that
> > he agreed with. What about reverting the layout change, releasing
> > beta1
>
> Agreed.
>
> > and then reverting the revert this weekend?
>
> That's the most pointless idea ever ;) The layout surely is the most
> experimental part of trunk; if anything needs beta testing, it's this.
>
> My proposal: Revert to the old layout (yes, the 1.4.0 layout), and _keep_ it
> that way for the Fast Forward series. Then we can experiment with a new
> layout in the 2.0 branch.

+1

>
> The layout change is way too disruptive to get polished in time for a minor
> release, it still has numerous issues. User feedback generally reaches from
> "Are you nuts?" to "Good lord please change it back.", Frankly, I tend to
> agree, cause what we have now is something half-baked not up to our
> standards.
>


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