Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Toolbars

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 17:06 +0000, Will Abson wrote:
> On 06/12/05, James Livingston <jrl ids org au> wrote:
> > G'day everyone,
> >
> > The patch to make Rhythmbox use a toolbar (bug 316238) which was
> > discusses on the ML about a month ago has landed in cvs. The noticeable
> > changes are that the Play button now toggles, and that the seek bar
> > (song position slider) has moved.
> 
> Overall I think this looks good, although I'm finding it difficult to
> get used to the Play button toggling. I'm finding myself staring at
> the toolbar for a couple of seconds every time I decide I want to
> pause the music because my brain is looking for a pause button. I'm
> not an expert in GUI design, but the toggling just feels less
> intuitive to me.

I've found that a lot of themes suck badly when differentiating hovered
buttons, compared to depressed buttons.

> The icons for Repeat and in particular Shuffle also don't look quite
> as slick as the other icons, although I agree that it's nice to see
> them up there rather than in the status bar. Are these GNOME stock
> icons?

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 
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