UI Transparency Gradients

[KangNi]

Hey MusicBee community.

Here is my contribution to a UI facelift proposal, which i think, produce a much modern and smoother appearance:

Gradient Proposal:



Current Design:



As the title states, i suggest to implement transparency gradients on every panel, where the content doesn't fit in.
The purpose should be to visually better separate the the individual panels from each other.

How do you like it?

Greetings.

[voodoopunk]

-1

Unless it's optional.

[Haste]

+1  I like it. It's a common feature in modern designs and a good practice.

[aktor]

+1 Rounded cloud with mouseover, hoover effect implementation so that it does, not displace album covers would be a nice modernisation.

[hiccup]

…It's a common feature in modern designs and a good practice.

Luckily hardly any software that I know has this 'common feature' to obfuscate parts of texts (or images) in its interface.
And I would most certainly not call it 'good practice' if it did.

Also, this wouldn't offer even the slightest factual improvement to MusicBee's interface.
So if this would be a non-optional feature:
-1

[KangNi]

Hi and thanks for all your feedback so far.

If I would be the one who implementing the proposed feature, of course I would do it as an option. The essence of Musicbee are options. There is no reason to think about proposals only in a fundamentalist way.

Let's be constructive together and realize that design is a matter of taste that everyone sees differently.

Greetings.

[hiccup]

…

Well spoken.
And I think your wish was also presented in an exemplary manner.

It's just that I have been noticing over the last year or so that some users/forum members don't seem able to distinguish between what is their own personal (and perhaps a taste-of-the-day) preference, and what is an actual and functional improvement.
(just a general observation, not specifically directed at this topic or any of its esteemed contributors)