VideoPlayer

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Fri Sep 16 14:23:18 UTC 2011


On Friday, September 16, 2011 15:54:21 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
>  On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:56:14 +0200, Marco Martin wrote:
> > quite difficult topic this.
> > i hope it will be possible to use bangarang and it could be good 
> > enough for
> > pa1 since for now we still can (and have to) make some exceptions for
> > including  apps with an ui not completely touch based, however i
> > think on its
> > current ui the work to do is a lot, the "just makiing controls a bit 
> > bigger"
> > that he is doing now is good as a first step, but nowhere near 
> > enough.
> 
>  Yes. A desktop UI with bigger controls is not a touch UI. If you want
>  to make a touch UI for your application, you have to re-think it 
>  completely.
>  That doesn't mean that this won't happen with Bangarang, though.
>  So maybe using it as a default player for Plasma Active may be an 
>  incentive
>  for its author (or some other contributor) to invest the time to 
>  actually make
>  a touch-friendly UI, maybe with our help.

Andrew wrote that, did anyone actually read his blog? He put in "stop-gap" 
measures to make bangarang work better now, and he's working on an improved, 
real touch version as well.

http://bangarangkde.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/bangarang-touchificationism/
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