"Viral Marketing"... >-)

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

1. I don't think we have enough market share to make anything a
"defacto standard"

2. I think Amarok should _always_ be usable even if you know nothing
about it beforehand. This idea breaks that.

- Nikolaj

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking at web.de> wrote:
> ... on the toolbar.
>
> Assuming we'll for the moment go with the inner skip icons*, i'd like to add a
> little "hack" that is,
> - detect whether the svg theme contains non or blank skip buttons and
> - if not, reset the label alignments and enable dragging and animations.
>
> Then, in some kind of "viral marketing", we could leak such (totally
> unsupported, very exclusive and only for the illuminated) themes (w/o skip
> icons) and (have others...) show off, so this becomes
> - known
> - easily accessible
> - used
> - and de facto: Standard =)
> (well, that is... "hopefully")
>
> This is easy to do, would basically (temporarily) make the skin svg an
> implicit config option and allows a soft migration towards a skip icon free
> solution.
>
> Any objections regarding this?
> (To make it clear: there would be no "hackish" code required at all)
>
> Cheers
>
> *http://gitorious.org/amarok/amarok/merge_requests/122
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