Amarok 2 Mockup

[Miles Lane]

On 9/13/06, Max Howell <max.howell at methylblue.com> wrote:
> I was struck by some inspiration of late, so I made a mockup, which is
> somewhat a culmination of mine, and other people's ideas at k3m and things.
>
> May I suggest, view the mockup fullscreen so my colour scheme doesn't
> clash with yours. Kuickshow can do this if you push Enter.
>
> http://methylblue.com/images/amarok_2_mockup.png
>
> In a way I regret the web-2.0-esque toolbar as it detracts from the main
> point, which is the narrow playlist design so that the context browser
> can become central and key.
>
> Personally, I like the web-2.0-esque toolbar as it looks cool and
> differentiates, but tellingly, my gf hated it, so maybe I did it wrong
> or am just delusional.

FWIW, I think it looks great.  Also, I gotta say that amaroK rules.
It's the only reason I have a lot of KDE packages installed on Ubuntu.
I build from SVN, so I can enable AAC/MP4 support (I like to listen
to my music files encoded using iTunes, and don't know of any distro's
that currently ship with that installed (FC Rawhide and Ubuntu
development).

Thanks,
        Miles