On Dec 10, 2007 1:54 AM, Karsten Schmiedecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How about having a simple arrow button next to the search field that, when > clicked, slides out the current-style filter buttons and remembers the > state? > that way, the people that love the buttons will have them and those that > consider them UI clutter can get rid of them. That sounds interesting, but I think it might be better to go with one way or the other. I like the idea of having a readibly available history, but i do agree that > the UI for it seems unintuitive. the downpointing arrows are cluttery, and > click-and-hold (the way the history buttons work in opera) would conflict > with the combined skip/search functionality, which seems to make sense, > too. > I agree about the down-pointing arrows. I especially don't like that the popup menu on the "Prev" button is in between Prev and Play/Pause... But that's convention. I wanted to have it on the far left: [Previously Played] [<<] [Play/Pause] [>>] [Coming Up/Queued] [--------===------------------------------------] With the History/Future buttons as simple dots or something, and relatively small. OR, it could simply be bound to right-click of << and >> like in Firefox, but I'm not sure how discoverable that is. I do have a 'recently played tracks' automatic playlist, which does the work > in most cases for going back > Is it sorted by the order in which they were played? :) and if you really want to skip ahead, the > probably easiest (and most thorough) way is to open the currently playing > source (jump to current song) and double-click where you want to go. What about when playback is on Shuffle? As for > graying out, how about setting a threshhold (defaulting to 12hrs or > something) for graying out (slightly) all tracks in all sources that have > a > last-played time within that threshhold > I don't think this really works for RB (often viewing *many* tracks). > In most players the controls button have moved to the center (WMP, iTunes, > > Amarok2), which is a great improvement. Maybe RB could do the same? > > And I dont really like separate buttons for Play/Pause. It could change > to > > Pause when Playing to become clearer. But one of the best things in RB > is > > the Play button. > > > Moving the buttons to the center would reduce the space available for > track > info display, at least if you want to split up title, artist and album to > a > multiline layout, which I like, by the way. I especially like the idea of > moving the album artwork into the 'now playing' area, maybe with a > hover-popup containing a larger version of the artwork. I find artwork > intuitive and like to display it, but it greatly reduces the number of > entries visible in the source list on my widescreen monitor. I see in WMP: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/mediaplayer/design.mspx but not Amarok: http://amarok.kde.org/files/amarok14/shot7.png nor iTunes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ITunes_7.5.png It looks quite nice in WMP, I think. But doing that in RB would require many more changes. I think it's more suited to a "general" media player, with less focus on browsing and managing. Hover popup sounds good. Click to toggle a larger version might work too. Both? I dunno... Anyway, I thought I'd add my two cents. Thanks for doing that. :) Steve
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