New beep-media-player skin [ was Re: ubuntu 5.10 sound problem ]

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:43:42 -0800
crimsun at fungus.sh.nu wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 06:30:29PM -0600, Default User wrote:

> > But please lose the hideously ugly Ubuntu brown "skin" that
> > beep-media-player has by default.  

Just a +1 vote here for the *cough* _supposedly_ "hideous" brown skin. There's no accounting for tastes, is there? 

I much prefer its clarity and simplicity over some of the truly *tacky* skins I've seen for xmms/ beep. And of course, the brown is in keeping with the Ubuntu "Human" theme :-)

> 
> 1) I chose the Ubuntu skin over the former non-free blue one because I
>    modified the skin on which it is based.

Keep up the good work!

I for one, welcome our new aesthetic overlord...  ;-)  

[ /me runs from the ensuing flame fest/ pointless "yes it is! NO it _isn't_" thread ]

> 2) I oppose beep-media-player being chosen by default instead of
>    Rhythmbox on account of bmp being ended-of-life. Upstream is not
>    supporting bmp at all but instead concentrating efforts on bmpX,
>    which uses a completely new theme engine as well as being based on
>    either gstreamer or xine.

Peter ( tongue firmly in cheek)
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