forgot to add the link to the new mockup :D silly me http://img508.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rhythmboxmockup5qx4.png
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 6:41 PM, John McHugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I added the curves and moved the buttons to a new location... still > not sure about the button location though > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:47 PM, John McHugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I just noticed another problem with the mockup, when you press >> visualization button in said mockup the brows and visualization >> buttons are hidden by the visualization. >> >> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Mats Taraldsvik >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Great! >>> >>> Here are my two cents: >>> >>> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 00:24 +0100, John McHugh wrote: >>>> Got bored, remembered discussion about the progress bar so created a >>>> mockup of what rhythmbox would look like if the progress bar was >>>> relocated. >>>> >>> >>> Looks good. I would perhaps have rounded corners. Perhaps (plugin / ui / >>> additional ) buttons not related to play/pause/next etc. could be placed >>> after or before the volume? >>> >>> Make another "module" below the progress bar(/module) with search/ >>> (all/artists/albums/titles)/toggle browser. >>> >>> Align "Library |>" and the "treeview"/browser/track listing. >>> >>>> Other changes included a full frame around the album art(The frame >>>> currently doesn't cover the top), and the categories integrate better >>>> with the theme(right now they stay grey regardless of the theme). >>> >>> I like it :) >>> >>>> >>>> As for the progress bar debate, I don't really know where I stand >>>> because I can see problems with both ui's. The current one increases >>>> screen real estate for the playback which increases precision at the >>>> cost of loosing screen real estate for the library itself. >>>> >>>> Moving the progress bar into the toolbar would increase the screen >>>> real estate for the music library at the cost of loosing precision. >>>> >>>> In the mockup I have completely removed the currently playing artist >>>> info (song-artist-album). The reason I removed this was because I felt >>>> it was wasting screen real estate when 2 out of 3 are already >>>> displayed in the window decoration. >>>> Currently the artist and song are displayed in the window decoration >>>> but if the album was also displayed you could gain a considerable >>>> amount of space in rhythmbox itself regardless of whether the progress >>>> bar is moved or not. >>> >>> With my "module" / toolbar(s) solution, a button to toggle >>> artist/album/etc could be added before or after "volume"-button. >>> >>>> >>>> The mockup can be viewed here - >>>> http://img367.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rhythmboxmockup4ln0.png >>> >>> >>> ( Despite being rubbish in GIMP, I could try to mock this idea, if that >>> is necessary/ my explanation causes confution. ) >>> >>> Regards, >>> Mats >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
