[rschiks]

ok here is the first pic



what you think best of both worlds and remember this was just a quick mock up to show what I mean. I added some drop shadows behind the icons and text to make them pop more and more readable

oh this could also be done for the bar at the bottom of the screen to so that could be a hidden sliding window so that you could have the bar or not this keeps the whole thing tidy and other features accessible at the same time.

just a quick pic a dark theme bar for rschiks dark theme



the bottom bar is not finalised as I still am not to happy about it. I was going to do some different colour types and see what was the best out of them all but the dark one seems to be better than the white what do you think

I think this is a great idea! For the dark theme the buttons in the bottom menu bar look great.
Should it be a sliding gesture or could it also be like a button pressed? I don't see a problem to have a sliding gesture for the left side menu. The bottom menu, however, if there are already some buttons, the could be in the way with the sliding gesture up.

I also think the rotating gesture for volume control is not needed. A volume sliding bar is more precise, or not?