From: Andrew H. <ash@CS.Arizona.EDU> - 2002-07-16 19:41:40
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Daniel Caujolle-Bert wrote: > > It's a question of taste. Nobody can tell which is the better, > which is the worst. Personnaly, i use the 'LCD', but i can't tell you > this one IS the better, since you seems prefer 'cloudy'/'mp2k' one. > Other one will tell us the xinetic rules, etc... > > Do we do as mplayer do: no skin at all, user should grab the one > he want. ? > > I vote for removing skins ;-) > > The reaon why skins has been removed is xine-ui tarball size. This > save +/- 1Mb, and skins config file change not so often. So, it's > better for user the download only the one he prefer, and save money > with download times. > > Cheers. At first I thought this was a stupid idea: what am I, a xine user, going to do without at least one skin? And since the answer to that is obviously 'nothing', why would the xine developers/distributors make my life harder by requiring me to download 2 files from different locations? But then I realized I don't use the tarball anyway, and neither do most typical users, I would guess. I get packages from skyblade. The really cool guy who does all the work to provide those packages could also provide skin packages. This would allow the lazy and/or clueless users to not have to worry about untaring tarballs into the correct directory. It would also allow linux distributors to include xine skins in their distributions just like they include xmms skins. |