Enrico Ros proposing a SoC project for improving the GUI

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
> On 8 Mar 2009, at 07:41, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> first I have to give you some background information on Enrico Ros -
>> only old time Amarok hackers might still know him. Enrico is an
>> Italian scientist, working in the field of robotics (I believe). He
>> also happens to be a programmer and an absolute expert with computer
>> graphics. He has done many graphics/GUI improvements in KDE, Amarok,
>> and other applications (I think Okular), and the man is a _wizard_.
>>
>>
>> as a starting point.
>>
>> What do you think about that?
>> <end quote Enrico>
>>
>>
>> My first personal thoughts about this are the following:
>>
>> 1) OMG yes, we want this man to work on Amarok.
>>
>> 2) He might be going too far, completely redesigning the GUI. We need
>> to be careful and communicate precisely what we want, and what is "too
>> much".
>>
>> 3) He should work together closely with our artists and usability
>> experts.
>>
>>
>> What are your opinions?
>
>
> If he is interested in a SoC project, shouldn't he come up with a
> proposal and stuff like everyone else? It is really hard to say
> anything from just an "I want to make amarok look good" kind of
> statement.

Absolutely, yes. I should emphasize (maybe I didn't make this clear
enough) that this "proposal" was really just a private mail to me, not
an official SoC proposal. I'm not even sure if he wanted to see this
mail quoted in public - I hope he doesn't mind.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org