Layout feedback - are you sick of it yet? ;-)

[John Mulligan]

Just fired up my newly compiled beta to get a chance to try the new UI 
firsthand.  After playing with it for a few minutes I'm going to have to 
throw my hat in with the doubters.

I think this location is much harder to use than the former. 

First off, the box is way too wide and somewhat hard to follow. I think this 
can be attributed to the same reason that newspapers break their text up into 
many narrow columns. It's much easier to read and follow things things that 
way.

Some of the stuff is kind of funny looking too, but that can probably be fixed 
via CSS.

Another thing I noticed is that my mouse has to travel much larger distances 
than before. Working with the collection, then viewing current track 
information, reading some lyrics... my cursor pretty much stayed on the left 
hand side of the screen before. Now it seems like there is much more 
back-and-forth mousing involved.

As as side note, I see that the clear playlist button moved... took me a while 
to find it. Maybe I use it a lot more than other people though?

I think I had a third valid point... but now I can't remember it! :-)
Anyhow, I hope this was constructive criticsim. I really love amarok and 
follow every release with much anticipation.

Keep up the good work!

John M.