Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] GUI mockup... let's get this sorted once and for all

[Jack Miller <themoken gmail com>]

All in all, I think it looks cool, but while the album art is cool,
pushing the queue down to three songs essentially makes it useless, in
my opinion. Also, any scaling down (i.e. not running RB full screen,
like I do in ion3) would cramp something *somewhere*, either cramp the
song list or the queue or the image, something gets pinched.

Show me a way around this and I'd be totally down for this.

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:09:56 +0000
Gareth Murphy <garethmurphy1 eircom net> wrote:

> I've been using Linux for just over a year now, and in this time I've
> been using Rhythmbox a LOT. I personally feel that the feature list is
> growing and looking really promising, but the GUI situation has
> possibly been the most agitating thing whilst following the projects
> development.
> 
> It's an inarguable fact that the user interface has a lot to do with
> how a user reacts to an application, from the icons to the general
> layout of things... it all effects how the user feels when using your
> app. 
> 
> It's no great secret that Banshee has grown massively in popularity
> over the last few weeks, and I believe that some of the credit simply
> has to go to the 'look & feel'... it uses Tango styled icons, has a
> nice logo designed by the man himself, Jimmac, and has some other
> cosmetic touches like Album art etc. Simply put, it's a pleasure to
> look at. Feature wise it's still no greater than Rhythmbox.
> 
> I just think that it's about time we started a real effort on making
> it look good and marketing it, for example getting that website
> sorted!
> 
> I've taken some time to create a simple mockup in the Gimp to show you
> what I mean. You'll find it at
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/gazam/116038333/ and you can see, by
> hovering over the image there, that I've put some notes on the image
> about stuff I've changed in it. Once you've read them, click on the
> 'all sizes' link above it to see it at it's proper scale to get a
> better look. 
> 
> I'd like to see a properly organised effort to get this issue sorted
> out once and for all, so tell me what you think and we can take it
> from there. I also wouldn't mind helping out with the website (time
> permitting of course) as I know xHTML, CSS and I'm not too shabby with
> creating graphics either ;)
> 
> P.S. looking forward to that plugin architecture... I know some Python
> so I'd like to work on something there too.
> 
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