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Mac builds updated to use the OS-native title bar

By komi komi

The most recent nightly build for Mac OS comes with a little surprise – the fake title bar is replaced with the OS-native title bar. Yay! Thanks Kreeger!

I’ll list some pros and cons:
Pros:

The title bar will inherit styles defined by the OS – eg: rounded corners, title text beveling, aqua/graphite buttons.
The window will behave like [...]

0.7pre Blessed Nightly Build Available

By komi komi

The first blessed nightly build for this release is available for testing! Although we are still finishing up development, we appreciate any attention the QA community can give to the following changes:

New UI – We are still adding the final touches to the UI but we went ahead and made it the default in the [...]

Honey, who moved my player controls?

By komi komi

Right click on player control area in Gonzo
Select “Display at Top”
Player controls move to the top of the window!

Kreeger landed the code earlier today so you should be able to try this out in tomorrow’s nightly build.

Gonzo is in the house

By komi komi

For the past couple of weeks we have been making progress on the new UI layout and feather. Internally, we call it Gonzo. Yesterday, we managed to check Gonzo into our subversion repository. This means that if you download today’s nightly build you’ll see an option in the view menu to switch to [...]

Request for feedback: Option A or Option B?

By komi komi

Over the next few releases we have committed to spend cycles revisiting Songbird’s UI. I’ve always appreciated and enjoyed the way Alex Faaborg keeps the community in the loop when it comes to UI changes in Firefox. I’m going to make an effort to follow his lead in the hopes that together we can make [...]