On Dec 8, 2007 5:58 PM, Steven Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I love RB, but I don't think I'm the only one who would like to see > the UI undergo some significant changes. It would be great if we > could get some discussion going here on the list and then reach a > reasonable consensus for goals. > > I've spent a long time over the past week designing what I believe to > be a better UI for Rhythmbox. (I started off with one little thing, > and it just snowballed from there until I was making modifications > everywhere.) I have searched through bugzilla, and I will provide > detailed rationale eventually (I plan to do a series of blog posts, > and posts to this list), but I figured it would be fun to get some > early feedback. Everybody loves screenshots! Er... mockups. > > I've included two layout ideas, each with two states: the sidebar and > browser both visible, and both hidden. They only differ from each > other in the ways the sidebar and browser are toggled. But they both > differ from the original Rhythmbox in many ways. I won't be reviewing > the sidebar's layout... and what's there now is just filler. I'm > mostly messing around with the buttons, main controls, and search... > and I'll go over alternatives and details for them later. Currently, > I haven't figured out a really good way to deal with the large space > to the right of the song info box. Of course, extensions could go > here, like "Love Song" in Last.fm or other plugins. > > Brief overview of the imaginary main controls: > - The play button toggles to a Pause button, if the track can be > paused. Otherwise (for streaming) it toggles to a Stop button. > - Clicking the Forward and Rewind buttons, will skip, as usual. > Clicking and holding them, however, will scan at a SANE speed. This > is how iTunes works, I'm told. Will have alternative designs later. > - Albums in the Album browser should have album art displayed next to > them (not in mockups, see here: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=77413&action=view) > - Search is more like Banshee's.
Current search is good. Why make it like Banshe's? > > Anyway, comments so far? Another comment is you waste too much space on the top-right. -- Duy _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
