osc.lua: add floating layout

[kasper93]

[Samillion]

I genuinely think this is beautiful to the point that I think it's worthy to be default when it's up and running. Well done.

In fact, osc.lua is just missing a new look for icons and it will have a mass appeal. This combined with guido's QoL options with console and select = perfection.

[kasper93]

Updated. I think it's fine now. Fine tuning can always be done, but I consider this ready for merge. This should be more touch friendly, where default bottombar layout forces you to edge with touch on the border of the screen.

[na-na-hi]

Can you remove the blur? It looks like low res texture from N64 games. And combining it with high res text and icons look really strange.

[llyyr]

maybe you could combine the windowcontrols in the box itself for the no title bar version

[kasper93]

Can you remove the blur? It looks like low res texture from N64 games. And combining it with high res text and icons look really strange.

Sure. Without blur. It has more flat look now, but maybe it's ok. Don't think shadow would do any better, hmm.

maybe you could combine the windowcontrols in the box itself for the no title bar version

I don't want to bloat box itself, there is a lot going on there already.

[kasper93]

Current status.

[dyphire]

I genuinely think this is beautiful to the point that I think it's worthy to be default when it's up and running. Well done.

I also agree that it can be provided by default.

[na-na-hi]

I also agree that it can be provided by default.

It would degrade mouse usability, see #9791. Current layout has everything usable at the bottom border which better respects Fitts's law.

[avih]

I like this layout, and I do use the box layout by default, but this could have issues with the mpv console.

Regardless of what it does now, the console could play nice with bottom layouts, but it's hard to do that with middle OSC layouts.

[dyphire]

I also agree that it can be provided by default.

It would degrade mouse usability, see #9791. Current layout has everything usable at the bottom border which better respects Fitts's law.

Yes, it makes sense. The new layout is very similar to the UI of QuickTime Player and IINA on Mac, and it is rare to see users complaining about it. But there's nothing wrong with keeping it as it is, just offering a new layout is already a good improvement.

[kasper93]

I also agree that it can be provided by default.

It would degrade mouse usability, see #9791. Current layout has everything usable at the bottom border which better respects Fitts's law.

For real though, it wouldn't degrade mouse usability, because #9791 is not resolved and the window edges/corners are not used as mouse hit targets. In the bottom bar layout you still have to aim exactly at the icon you want to press, they do not extend to the corner/edge, which would help with Fitts's law. I agree that if it were implemented properly it would be better.

I also agree that the general idea is to have full width seekbar in media player, but we have this already, so no point in changing and there are alternatives like UOSC or ModernZ that are doing it better anyway, so no point in competing in this area, I wanted to have modern alternative that is more appealing.

The new layout, however, is better for touch control, because it is genuinely hard to tap the exact corners of the screen when you are holding the device. Arguably it may also be better for mouse control, because the travel distance to reach elements positioned closer to the center of the screen is statistically shorter than going to a far edge. It also places information directly in front of the viewer, which for large projection systems or screens may be preferable to spanning the whole width of the projected area. That said, the floating seek bar is a bit small in comparison, and I do like the bottombar approach for that case. I don't like data density for both of them, but mpv likes to put more information than needed everywhere.

I have never suggested making this the default, because I know mpv purists will not like it. It is not the layout from 0.29.1. However, if the argument is that the mpv UI is the pinnacle of accessibility and usability, then I kindly have to disagree. It is functional, sure, and I like it, but it is far from perfect.

Side note: we could make this floating layout wider to span most of the available area. I'm not sure what would be preferred here.

Also, could we please focus feedback to this PR and suggestions for improving the current implementation, instead of sidetracking the discussion into topics not covered in this PR? I would love to improve this further, but I'm not a UI designer. I do my best to make it functional and preserve the OSC spirit. I was thinking that some color accent, like the mpv purple, might make it more appealing, but I'm not sure where it could be added without making it look too candy like.

[ghost]

i think if you refine, this look even better, this corner side won't look empty, you can try add playlist here too

it will look like this, much more cleaner

[kasper93]

i think if you refine, this look even better, this corner side won't look empty, you can try add playlist here too

OSC, shows also chapters there, so it is more useful to pure window title.