Re: [Banshee-List] Mockup for Banshee 2.0 toolbar.

[Buyongo Phiri <devicehandler gmail com>]

I think what we have is a situation of design by commitee. I for one
believe that we need to redesign the interface and take also into
consideration convention. Workflow as well as usability have to be our
main focus for too long linux music players have had a lay back
aproach to the interfaces adding features when ever. Maybe we should
focus on appointing individuals to head up the design aspect and push
towards an intuitive well thought of music player

On 1/5/11, Matt Sturgeon <mttza1 gmail com> wrote:
> Right - I've been having issues with reciving my Gmail account, but I
> have redesigned the mockups into a 6th which has two versions, one
> showing the Browser (music collection) and another on the Now Playing.
>
> Hopefully i will at some point get arround to uploading them to the
> banshe mockup page (http://www.kicks.co.cc/banshee-mockup/) but I will
> follow-up this email with them attached.
>
> Comments, as always welcome.
>
> On 16 December 2010 21:13, Michael Martin-Smucker <mlmartin13 gmail com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:33 PM, IBBoard <ibboard gmail com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  c) are we really gaining anything more than a few pixels, or are we
>>> basically removing the status bar only to pad out the top bar?
>>>
>>
>> This is my biggest concern with this proposed toolbar revamp.
>> Several posts ago, Bertrand asked what problem this is trying to solve,
>> and
>> I don't think I've seen a complete answer to that question yet.  Is the
>> goal
>> of this change to save vertical space?  If we eliminate the status bar and
>> keep the toolbar at its current height, we might free up enough vertical
>> space to show one extra song in the library.  That isn't, in my opinion,
>> enough of an advantage to justify adding clutter to the toolbar.
>> Also, from a consistency point of view, I don't think that the track count
>> /
>> total length / file size information belongs in the top toolbar.
>>  Nautilus,
>> Rhythmbox, Windows Explorer, Mac Finder, and iTunes all show this kind of
>> information in the status bar, and I don't see any reason for Banshee to
>> go
>> against that convention.  Adding that much text to the top toolbar makes
>> that corner feel cluttered, and I'm afraid that it would be even more so
>> with the search box there.
>> In my opinion, gtk-based music players are all a bit bland in the toolbar
>> area, so I'm excited that you and others are exploring the possibilities.
>> I'm just not sure I agree with the idea of merging the toolbar and status
>> bar, and I'd be interested in hearing how individual changes that you're
>> proposing are an improvement on the current Banshee interface.
>> Michael
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