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Tuesday, May 23. 2006

All About Eye-Candy Posted by Harald Sitter in apachelogger at 18:10

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All About Eye-Candy

today kapilzad publish his KDE Spectra proposal series for KDE...

Most important thing for me is KDE Spectra Player - meant as "KDE should have a powerful multimedia player, with cool graphics and should be like a file-browser"

powerful media player: just wondered why his mockup uses stuff named suroor.mp3 - dunno tags? dunno vorbis?
cool graphics: which actually means as big that your eyes start bleeding because you have to move them 3 cm to see another button (big + shiny != cool)
should be like a file-browser: aye, since one doesn't have tags...

So, there is a reason why this proposal got quite some negative votes, and it's not only amaroK.

Anyway, the whole KDE Spectra propal series is missing a good point, the whole idea lacks usability (thought of a non-usability expert), functionality and is actually only about eye-candy (allthough I wonder whether hundreds awful BIG buttons are still eye-candy)

This is not how I'd like to see KDE!!!

Tuesday, May 23. 2006

gearing up Posted by Ian Monroe in eean at 05:07

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gearing up

We've been getting into some of the nitty gritty details of the multimedia meeting in the Netherlands this weekend. Like with the help of the Wikipedia picture of Amsterdam's Centraal Station, we decided that I would meet Leinir on the west side of the main entrance on that blank wall. Hoo-ray for the Internet.

First order of business: How do you pronounce Leinir?

Since I dislike walking, and its the "when in Rome" thing to do besides, I'll probably be renting a bicycle for Thursday. If I'm not too jetlagged, and after looking at the other touristy things to do during the day in Amsterdam, I decided to see the Van Gogh museum again. The things I didn't do in Amsterdam the last time, like the Anne Frank house or the Heinkein Experience (Come on Heinkein, 10 Euros? Budweiser makes watery beer, but at least Grant's farm is free and has a zoo!) still don't sound as appealing.

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