This email has banshee-mockup-6-music_browser.png attached, Mockup 6 showing the music browser in PNG format. On 5 January 2011 09:18, 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> banshee-list mailing list >> banshee-list gnome org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/banshee-list (unsubscribe here) >> >
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