comments on new gui

[Ian Monroe]

Its a work in progress, if your wondering whether we are going to
leave the context browser wasting large amounts of space, the answer
is no.

On 6/19/06, Jan Callewaert <jan.callewaert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed Amarok 1.4.1 beta 1 and maybe I could share my thoughts.
>
> I actually quite like the new gui, 'cause it gives you a much clearer view on
> the playlist. However, the disadvantage is that you can't get a complete
> overview anymore in one glimpse of the eye of the information about the music
> about that artist, which I find quite annoying.
>
> Moreover, the space could be used more efficiently in the music tab. For the
> information that is present, a whole screen width is simply too much. Most of
> the entries consist of the entry <artist> - <songtitle> with in some cases a
> rating. It occupies the entire screen width, while in the playlist the same
> information is present but much more condensed.
>
> I have two suggestions for this:
> - The information of most played albums, songs, ... which is currently only
> available in the statistics menu or when no song is playing could be added to
> one side, divididing the occupied screen use in two for each component.
>
> - The music and lyrics tab could be merged. After all, the music tab consists
> of information about the currently playing song, which also includes the
> lyric. And one line of a lyric almost never is as long that the entire screen
> width is needed.
>
> Just my pick, there are some possibilities with the new lay-out but it still
> needs some fine-tuning.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jan
>
>
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