Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox UI mockup

["John McHugh" <tretle gmail com>]

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
>
>