Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox UI mockup

["John McHugh" <tretle gmail com>]

I added the curves and moved the buttons to a new location... still
not sure about the button location though

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:47 PM, John McHugh <tretle gmail com> wrote:
> I just noticed another problem with the mockup, when you press
> visualization button in said mockup the brows and visualization
> buttons are hidden by the visualization.
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Mats Taraldsvik
> <mats taraldsvik broadpark no> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Great!
>>
>> Here are my two cents:
>>
>> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 00:24 +0100, John McHugh wrote:
>>> Got bored, remembered discussion about the progress bar so created a
>>> mockup of what rhythmbox would look like if the progress bar was
>>> relocated.
>>>
>>
>> Looks good. I would perhaps have rounded corners. Perhaps (plugin / ui /
>> additional ) buttons not related to play/pause/next etc. could be placed
>> after or before the volume?
>>
>> Make another "module" below the progress bar(/module) with search/
>> (all/artists/albums/titles)/toggle browser.
>>
>> Align "Library |>" and the "treeview"/browser/track listing.
>>
>>> Other changes included a full frame around the album art(The frame
>>> currently doesn't cover the top), and the categories integrate better
>>> with the theme(right now they stay grey regardless of the theme).
>>
>> I like it :)
>>
>>>
>>> As for the progress bar debate, I don't really know where I stand
>>> because I can see problems with both ui's. The current one increases
>>> screen real estate for the playback which increases precision at the
>>> cost of loosing screen real estate for the library itself.
>>>
>>> Moving the progress bar into the toolbar would increase the screen
>>> real estate for the music library at the cost of loosing precision.
>>>
>>> In the mockup I have completely removed the currently playing artist
>>> info (song-artist-album). The reason I removed this was because I felt
>>> it was wasting screen real estate when 2 out of 3 are already
>>> displayed in the window decoration.
>>> Currently the artist and song are displayed in the window decoration
>>> but if the album was also displayed you could gain a considerable
>>> amount of space in rhythmbox itself regardless of whether the progress
>>> bar is moved or not.
>>
>> With my "module" / toolbar(s) solution, a button to toggle
>> artist/album/etc could be added before or after "volume"-button.
>>
>>>
>>> The mockup can be viewed here -
>>> http://img367.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rhythmboxmockup4ln0.png
>>
>>
>> ( Despite being rubbish in GIMP, I could try to mock this idea, if that
>> is necessary/ my explanation causes confution. )
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mats
>>
>>
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