On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 21:32 +0200, Christophe Dehais wrote: > Viewing those 2 mockups makes me think that, as there are more and > more sources (stores, devices, shares, ...), it could be beneficial to > allocate more space to the source list, granting it the whole left > side of the application and putting the toolbar and position slider on > top of the browser view.
Space in the sidebar is fairly limited, particularly with album-art or the queue there, so this might be a good way to relieve from of the space-pressure. All we lose is a bit of length of the information header, but I think for most people that would be a problem. > Well, of course the toolbar must stand below the application menu and > that can't really be changed... So, time for implementing a more > complex widget ? Some time ago, I was thinking about foldable panels. > It's out of topic, but here is the mockup I did then (I also have a > working widget, but I did it to learn Gtk custom widget creation, so > it's barely a proof of concept ...) > > http://coloc.dnsdojo.org/~tof/pub/rb-mockup.png I'd though about something similar a month or two ago, using a similar concept to Struts Tiles (which are for web apps). My idea was mainly to let you move things like album art around, putting a second sidebar on the right for the queue or something. A more extreme version of that, where you can move everything around, might work - but we'd have to be careful not to make it too confusing. Cheers, James "Doc" Livingston -- > Thus again, we have successfully proven that I cannot read minds. It doesn't help. Almost all you ever get is "This mind intentionally left blank." -- AJS and Steve VanDevender in a.s.r _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
