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For those who are not aware, in Amarok 2.2 users will be able to move the various UI elements, like the playlist, context view, browser, and media controls, anywhere they want in the window. You can see more about it here. Since that blog post was made, it appears this was officially integrated into Amarok 2.2 trunk.

I think it would be much more flexible, however, if the media controls (the play/pause/stop/etc buttons, progress bar, volume bar, and song info) were separate elements that could be moved around and repositioned independently of each other. This would allow much more flexibility when organizing the amarok window how you want it and should hopefully silence complaints about the layout of these elements (which a fair number of people seem to not like). I am not suggesting the buttons be moved separately of each other, that would probably be too complicated. They would be moved as a single object.

There are a number of possible layouts that I think people might want. For instance someone could put the volume and current song information at the top and the buttons and progress bar at the bottom. Someone could also have the progress bar stretch across the entire window, put the buttons directly above or below the progress bar in the middle of the window (horizontally), the volume above the progress bar to one side of the buttons, and the current song info above the progress bar on the other side of the buttons.

If the elements were re-sizable and had some knowledge of where they were being places, it could allow for even more flexibility. So for instance if you try to put the volume to the right of the playlist, it will rotate the volume slider so it become vertical. The same would happen with the progress bar or the buttons. If you try to reshape the buttons into something more square it automatically shift some of them down and some of them up to better take advantage of the space.