From: Michael R. <mr...@us...> - 2002-11-25 11:48:27
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Hi Lawrence, > > I have created an animated xine logo and a visual to replace the > > current, legally problematic one in xine-ui. If you like it, we > > could include them in the CVS, since they are not too big (0.5M > > each). You can get them here: > > http://www.bluebeamentertainment.com/xine/ > > The one on the left is preferable based on the screenshots, though > I couldn't get Xine to play it. The one on the right plays, and is > very reminiscent of the default KDE scheme in Knoppix. How? No matter > how impressively it may perform, if it looks like it was designed by > a 14-year-old Run Lola Run fan from East Berlin, I'm not too likely > to be able to get it onto desktops at the Canadian Federal > Government. > > Ask yourself if you're going to think that it looks garish and > tacky 5 years from now. Then ask yourself if you think it would look > good on the desktop of a bank president who makes $2.5M per year. > Simple and conservative by default, not animated water, which is _so_ > 1993 and didn't even look good then. The children will play with it > enough to learn how to change to the skin and animation of the week, > the professionally-employed adults among us will generally just > install a video player that looks more mature it its place. Since > Xine is the best one for Unix at the moment, it means another > installation of Windows. Have I insulted you in any former life? Yes I do live in eastern Germany and I in fact consider Run Lola Run a good movie. Does this make me a second class human? I simply sat down and spent my free time to produce an alternative for the current legally offending visual in xine-ui, so I would appreciate something like "Thank you" for a start. I have not forced anyone to like it or even to use it. Quoting myself: "If you like it, we could include them in the CVS". So if you had just said: "I do not like them, because I think..." or if you had presented ideas how to improve them (like guenter did) or event better, if you could already give the URI where we could download your alternatives, I would have been totally glad, because this is how we manage things in this community. Michael -- /* Identify the flock of penguins. */ 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c |