Whaaw Media Player

Pasi Lallinaho open at knome.fi
Fri Jan 1 21:01:45 UTC 2010


Steve Dodier wrote:
> Whaaw's GUI does not look great to me. It looks extremely
> minimalistic. If the point is only to remove a few dependencies then
> I'm not sure it's such a great idea.
>
> Besides, Parole is being developed quite fast, and already has a
> decent set of features. There are a few things that I dislikein
> Parole's GUI (don't have them in mind though), but I think a
> discussion about these with Parole's author could get them sorted out.
> He is a nice developer and very attentive to comments from downstream
> users.
>
> 2010/1/1 J. Anthony Limon <j at flippo.net <mailto:j at flippo.net>>
>
>     Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
>     > J. Anthony Limon wrote:
>     >> J. Anthony Limon wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> Hi team,
>     >>>
>     >>> I had never heard of this app before the other night, most
>     likely due to
>     >>> it not being the repositories, but it seems to be an excellent
>     fit for
>     >>> the XFce/Xubuntu desktop as a replacement for Totem. It's
>     simple, light
>     >>> and uses gstreamer without any GNOME ties.
>     >>>
>     >>> Any comments?
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     > The fact that it's not in the repositories probably means it's
>     not going
>     > to be default at least in Lucid.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> I realized I forgot to supply a URL for the app, sorry guys.
>     >>
>     >> http://home.gna.org/whaawmp/
>     >>
>     >> - J
>     >>
>     > It looks nice and easy to use, though.
>     >
>     > Then again, there is Parole
>     > (http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/parole), which is
>     also a
>     > new project, and might also be considered to use in Lucid+1.
>     >
>     > --
>     > Pasi Lallinaho
>     > Xubuntu Marketing Lead
>     > Web-designer, graphic artist
>     > IRC: knome @ freenode
>     >
>
>     Oh yeah, I wouldn't even recommend it being default in Lucid. Just
>     curious as to what others thought of it in general, maybe expose it to
>     others who may be interested in the project.
>
>     Parole does seem interesting, I'll have to look into it more. On a
>     pretty non-important note, I severely dislike their icon/logo..
>
>     - J
>
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> Steve Dodier
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Dear Steve,

do not top-post :P

-- 
Pasi Lallinaho
Xubuntu Marketing Lead
Web-designer, graphic artist
IRC: knome @ freenode

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