Re: [Banshee-List] banshee unintelligent interface.

[Michael Martin-Smucker <mlmartin13 gmail com>]

I agree with IBBoard.  The changes generally look good, but I disagree with removing the status bar unless you want to show that information somewhere else.  That information can be very valuable in some contexts (eg, when making a playlist to sync to a device, you need to know how much space the music in the playlist takes), and the vertical pixels saved by removing it are borderline negligible.

Other than that, I definitely agree with your changes.  Banshee's toolbar feels a little cluttered right now, and I think you've made some good refinements.  I also leave the context pane turned off because it takes up so much space at the bottom, but if it was along the side, I might actually use it.

If you're serious about having these changes made to the Banshee interface, you should probably open separate bug reports for each major interface change that you are proposing.  Detail in writing and with mockups the specific change, and give scenarios explaining how your proposed changes are better than the current interface.  Try to think about every potential problem, for example, the Play Queue and Internet Archive sources add some extra buttons at the top... where would those buttons fit into your design?

I really like the mockups... good luck!

Michael

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:21 AM, IBBoard <ibboard gmail com> wrote:

Not bad. Some interesting ideas, but I thought my album art browser
already looked like your mock-up in terms of layout. Is that just a
change to a default? Compacting some of the top stuff would be good
for wider displays, but if it gets too narrow then the search box may
interfere with the currently playing item. The biggest change is
probably the positioning of the "extra details" panel (whatever it is
called), which I've almost never used.

Also, I quite like having the details of how many songs I have, what
the play time is and how much space that takes up on disk easily
available in the status bar at the bottom.

On 12 September 2010 13:30, dani planas armangue <daniplanas a gmail com> wrote:
> Banshee is a great and powerful application,it have many and good
> developers, but there is no usability expert. and interface show it.
> Banshee has a lot of wasted space and needs some reforms.
>
> I think I posted this some time ago, but am not sure, anyway I leave a
> link to my mockups:
>
> what do you think¿
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Maverick/banshee%20redesign
>
> pd: are not very drastic changes but it is very useful
> regards.
> --
>                            Daniel Planas.A
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