Layout change, next take

[Gábor Lehel]

On 6/10/06, Mark Kretschmann <markey at web.de> wrote:
> Buenos Diaz Muchachos,
>
> now that we have the new context tabs (Amarok style) working since last night,
> I've been testing things a bit more, and I think the new tabs really do help
> to improve usability to a certain extent. Makes the whole thing more
> palatable, as you can now hide the context view with just one click (which is
> handy for me, as the context view is fairly useless for me with my small
> screen resolution).
>
> Also we've been discussing a bit more on IRC, and it's obvious that the dev
> team is divided on the layout issue. Muesli for instance will be very
> disappointed if we revert it; Alex and Ian both see potential in the layout
> and want to experiment with it in 1.4. IMHO the last thing we need is to
> alienate part of our development team.
>
>
> So here's my new proposal:
>
> Release the beta _with_ the new layout. Collect and evaluate user feedback,
> and try to address possible issues. Then decide if we want to keep the layout
> or not.

I'm fine with this too (more testing is always good), as long as no
one trots out the "but we used the new ui for the beta, so now we have
to use it for the final" argument ;).


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