Enrico Ros proposing a SoC project for improving the GUI

[Leo Franchi]

On 8 Mar 2009, at 10:33, Mark Kretschmann wrote:

> 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.


Ok, that sounds good. I look forward to reading his proposal then :)

leo

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