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Re: Music app.

 

I am guessing, videoplayer and music player were not part of the core apps
because canonical is giving them a headstart. Videopplayer would be added
later as well (the tablet demo keynote certainly has it, so they gave it a
thought).

Why is the meeting not looking good?

Zisu Andrei


On 10 March 2013 03:13, Veritatem Ignotam <veritatem.ignotam@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Man, I was away for a few days and it seems like a lot has happened.
>
> I'm glad everyone's leaning towards keeping video and music separate. That
> would've been a mistake I think. The way people are use to using
> smartphones is when they want to preform a specific function, they go back
> to the main menu (home screen, whatever) and find the app that handles what
> they're looking to do. To combine them, the user would have to navigate our
> app, which as Andrei said, is basically the same thing except now our gui
> gets a little clunkier and our code bigger. Though if one were to do it,
> mplayer would be best for a backend. :)
>
> I guess a video player isn't apart of the core apps either? Perhaps we
> should start throwing around ideas for that as well.
>
> Will try to make the IRC meetup but it's not looking good,
>
> V.I.
>
>
> On 03/08/2013 03:58 PM, Zisu Andrei wrote:
>
>  Yeah, I guess you were right.
>
>  I was thinking more along the lines of having a library with everything
> in it and only when you open an item you get a music or a video view
> depending on the item you selected...
>
>  But that's exactly the same as having 2 different apps.
>
>  I will attempt to write some personas/usage scenarios  later today and
> come up with a list of requirements. After that I'll do some balsamiq
> sketches.
>
>  How do we get to edit the ubuntu wiki to write down what we have now? Or
> should we use launchpad blueprints?
>
>
>
>
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