OK, I have a moderate amount of experience with tweaking things and building things, and my google-fu is strong, but I can't for the life of me figure how to change the appearence of my rhythmbox. Currently mine looks like this.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...mbox-0.9.7.png

I want it to look like this (albeit with less crappy music), note the combination of the buttons and the progress bar onto the same "line"

http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythm...-Rhythmbox.png

How can I do this??

I'm currently using the stock version 0.9.6 that comes with Ubuntu 6.10.
I'm not averse to building a new version (i.e. 0.9.7) If I can get the above look. Any ideas?

There is some recent discussion on the rhythmbox-devel mailing list about the slider and its size.
http://www.mail-archive.com/rhythmbo.../msg03329.html

You could try compiling 0.9.7 from source, but I'd guess the screenshot of your preferred slider is from an earlier version?