I think the point of the mockups is to create a better user feel/ux by a) adding a few extra pixels to the browser/main-section vertically (removing the status bar), b) moving the controls to one toolbar and c) making room for a wider seek slider and following a design more intuitive for new users from both Mac and Windows. see attached screenshots. On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 21:47 +0100, Bertrand Lorentz wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Matt Sturgeon <mttza1 gmail com> wrote: > > Ok, sorry - the emails still arnt going through - im going to host a > > page on my website. The page is located here: > > http://www.kicks.co.cc/banshee-mockup/ > > Thanks, I was just going to suggest you to do just that ;) > And thanks also for all those mockups ! > > I would be interested in hearing more about the UI/UX problem(s) > you're trying to solve here, and about the improvements those changes > bring to the user. > > If one of those is about having a wider seek slider, I'd like to hear > why you feel this is necessary. > With the current layout (1.9.0 and above), a slider that is about 250 > pixels wide fits comfortably on my 1280px wide screen. And that gives > you about 1 pixel per second for your average 4 minutes song. And > anyway, I rarely rewind or skip forward, and if I do, it's more like > "let's go back near the start" or "let's skip the slow start of that > song and go somewhere in the middle". > For the other, less frequent, use cases, like precision seeking in an > hour long podcast, I think those should be handled through the "Seek > to" dialog or bookmarks, maybe with additional refinements to these > features. > (Yes, the "Seek to" dialog was a bit broken in 1.9.0, it's fixed in git master). >
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