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Amarok new lay-out from SVN is terrible
by Frederik on Monday 29/May/2006, @11:47

I'm using recent SVN check-out, and noticed the new layout in the Amarok browser. Now the information about the playing track (wikipedia artist information, related artists, lyrics,...) are put in a seperate pane above the playlist. Personally I think it's extremely ugly and unpractical.

The contents of the pane (certainly the lyrics and music tab) are clearly more destined to be shown in "portrait" mode than in the new "landscape mode". With the new lay-out, a lot of horizontal space is wasted, while there's not enough vertical space. Now I always have to scroll to see most of the information in the music tab, while otherwise all could fit in the side pane and was always visible. Because of the extra space this pane takes above the playlist, there's much less space remaining for the playlist itself. And when I'm not interested in the information in the pane , it's more work to hide (and later make appear again) the pane. While in the previous lay-out, a click on the tab sufficed, I now have to use my mouse to drag & drop the splitter completely to the top of the window.

Please reconsider this lay-out!

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Re: Amarok new lay-out from SVN is terrible
by muesli on Monday 29/May/2006, @12:31

please reconsider looking at it and judging it, once it is finished.

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Re: Amarok new lay-out from SVN is terrible
by Max Howell on Tuesday 30/May/2006, @02:37

Give us a chance to polish it and you'll prolly be happy. Eg, the context-pane/browser/thing will be redesigned to fit the new width and not look ugly.

And I will be spending time on the aesthetics like usual. Should be as pretty as ever, prolly much more so by next release.

We at amaroK thank you for your faith!

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Re: Amarok new lay-out from SVN is terrible
by John Slave on Monday 19/Jun/2006, @11:43

I agree..i prefer old layout...however a button to choose layout could resolve the problem..

John

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Re: Amarok new lay-out from SVN is terrible
by César Delgado on Tuesday 27/Jun/2006, @16:11

I prefer the old layout. There should be the possibility to change between both. Some people may be prefered the newest way, I really like the older one. It was great.

So, if want to change the layout, ok, but with the old layout option. Switch between them easily.

Cesar

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Re: Amarok new lay-out from SVN is terrible
by Darkelve on Thursday 22/Jun/2006, @02:10

At least it's better than having to twist my neck 90 degrees every time I want to read the text on the panes!

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