How done is the look of the new, new default skin now? I don't want to start another variant of the highlight's not finished yet (I wasn't even sure what all was being referred to as a highlight).
Jumping in anyways... For the large white areas for the left and right sides - are those the final colors? Seems a bit empty and old school. Most non-editable areas are not white anymore in current UI fashion. Are there plans to put some sort of color/texture in these areas? No idea what might be good there, though. Silver/metalic? The Vista IE7 uses a very readable two-tone silvery/grey for the tab line. Another thought would be something sort of translucent so the background showed through (like Vista Areo) (probably wouldn't work out for readability but others have said that it has been a shame to cover up the background so much). Since it is so much of the interface it should look cool somehow - sorry I can't come up with much of anything in the way of ideas, though. The squeezecenter graphic seems a bit thin and grainy to me. Bolder text or just slightly bigger - to match the height of the player box, perhaps - would be nicer in my opinion. I'm figuring that the scanning progress page isn't done yet - the graphics there have taken a major step backwards. Would it make sense to lighten up the buttons at the top of the player side (back, play/pause, next, repeat, suffle, etc.) a bit? They seem to blend into the background a bit too much - it ruins the 3D effect of them being real buttons on a device. Maybe the rest/blank area just needs a bit more texture instead. The graphics at the bottom of the player list are virtually unreadable and very boring. The only one that seems somewhat clear is the clear (x) icon. How about a red X and some 3D, at least. The save is probably supposed to look like a disk (floppy?), but I'm not sure and it isn't intuitive. Many people have commented upon the hide/show artwork mess double-button single action from a function point of view but they don't look any better, either. Unfortunately, I will also be the first to admit that I cannot create icons even as good as this so perhaps I shouldn't criticize (and I do mean for this to be constructive) so take this with a grain of salt. How about following in the same line as the Help and Settings icons? Those look very nice and modern. Otherwise very nice. -- dwilliams01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39957 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
