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

[Buyongo Phiri <devicehandler gmail com>]

>From what I have observed your the only one dealing with design
everything else has been code. I might be mistaken though, but one
thing I do know is we must rethink the interface and do a major revamp
somehow and really polish it up.

On 1/5/11, Matt Sturgeon <mttza1 gmail com> wrote:
> Is there seriously not s banshee design team?
>
> How is the project organised?
>
> It is often common in open source to completely neglect visuals, design, art
> etc. In my opinion banshee is currently one of the more attractive gtk
> applications, but if it does not have a design team (and other categoric
> teams) then the right people might not be the ones making specific
> decisions.
>
> On 5 Jan 2011 12:09, "Buyongo Phiri" <devicehandler gmail com> wrote:
>> 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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