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[DavidM <648091@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,
  my thoughts for what's it is worth.

When I'm editing videos, the two primary focus areas are the preview
window and the time line.  They must be front and central to any UI -
that is why I like openshot so much.  In the mockup - the play-rewind
buttons etc take too much space - they should be all on one line.  The
icons are not central to the design and should be fairly small, but
still obvious and displayed.

I think there should be three tabs to replace the current "file" section
in the mockup - first tab called "Import" (default).  The second called
"Edit" and the third called "Make Movie" - i.e. you import clips, you
edit the clips and finally you make the movie.

The "import" window should show all files to be displayed - there should
be two views to this - one displaying the standard file - length -size
etc as it does now.  The second view should show the "scenes" within the
chosen file.  i.e. I personally like seeing scenes which I drag and drop
rather than just whole files which I have to manually split.

The edit tab displays buttons to the left-hand side as a button bar - icon for "transition" (default), second "effect", third "audio" etc.  Therefore the initial display should show all the possible "transitions" possible as icons.
Therefore you can drag and drop transitions easily.  Applying effects is just by clicking the button bar "effect" icon.  The section updates with all the "effects" icons. 

All transitions and effects should display a text popup when hovering
over it.  The preview window should show the effect in action - ideally
using the current video.  e.g. hovering over a "fade-to-the-right" icon
should preview the current video frame and then fade to black.

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UI redesign
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Bug description:
Hi,

I think we should made a ui redesign for the next openshot major version (aka 1.3), so i asked Jan Hofmann, a german ui designer known for his evolution and rhythmbox elementary mockup to make us a mockup.

So here it is : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/155356/openshot.jpg

I found it very simple and beautiful, with a good use of the available space. Feel free to commant about it. (keep in mind that's just a first try, all suggestion are welcome)

We should also decide if this ui redesign, when approved, will be based on the upcoming gtk3 release (with openshot using pygobject, GtkApplication, gtk3, ...) or on the old legacy gtk2.

A new defaut theme has to be made (request by a lot of users), has to be more gnome friendly (so basically we should have at least 2 icons themes, one defaut higncolor theme and one for ubuntu, other distrib will follow)  and fit with freedesktop recommendation (install icons system wide, ...).

This bug can be used to discuss all these suggestions.

Thanks. (and sorry for my english)