Google Summer of Code: Amarok CD Stack Collection View

[Casey Link]

I'm not very familiar with the consequences of using OpenGL, but will
there be any drawbacks to using OpenGL? Such as limiting the types of
machines that can run Amarok?

I can run Amarok smoothly on my Eee PC (900Mhz), but if this feature
was added would I be able to?

I love it though.. and Nikolaj is right it is different enough but still cool.

-Casey

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
<nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, I like this, I like it a lot actually!
>
>  It is really close to Dan's original CD stack idea and different
>  enough from coverflow and the likes.
>
>  - Nikolaj
>
>
>
>  On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
>  > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Andreas Schäfer <gentryx at gmx.de> wrote:
>  >  > Hi,
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >  On 20:32 Sun 23 Mar     , Ian Monroe wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  > > Well I'm disappointed that you don't plan on using OpenGL.
>  >  >
>  >  >  OK, I've toyed a bit more with OpenGL and while I still believe that
>  >  >  font rendering could be an issue, I guess it's doable. On the one hand
>  >  >  you can use high res textures (acceptable quality for animations, but
>  >  >  inferior to normal 2d painting) and on the other hand you can use
>  >  >  overpainting or glDrawPixels() and friends (high quality fonts, but
>  >  >  still some fiddling with model sizes and screen res. needed).
>  >  >
>  >  >  If you like the (conceptual) look of my prototype...
>  >  >   http://gentryx.de/~gentryx/proto.avi
>  >  >   (should play with MPlayer, my Xine did struggle a bit :-( )
>  >  >   http://gentryx.de/~gentryx/frame.108.jpg
>  >  >  ...I'd be happy to gear my proposal towards a OpenGL heavy solution.
>  >  >
>  >  >  Thanks
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > -Andreas
>  >
>  >  That looks really quite decent IMO (I can't speak for all Amarok devs
>  >  of course).
>  >
>  >  Anyways, we don't have to make all these decisions now, you could just
>  >  leave the exact implementation a bit open in your proposal.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  Ian
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