Re: media players

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: media players
Date: 13:57 on 29 Sep 2003
> Other players aren't much better; they tend to come in funny oval or 
> rounded-corner or blob-shaped default skins, and if they're skinnable, 

If they're skinnable, they're shite.

Skinnable apps are the worst user-interface disaster in the past
decade and a half, NOT excluding the click-start-to-shutdown button
and Lotus Notes.

> This seems to be a common theme that runs right through all media 
> players, so yes, I'm an equal opportunity hater here, too.

Quicktime 4 seems to have started this trend. And people go on
about Apple's user interface skills -- sheesh. I'm sorry, Apple's
had their fair share of user interface blunders and then some. But
at least they're usually consistent blunders... which explains why
the godawful Quicktime 4 UI is spreading like cancer through Mac
OS X.

There's stuff above here

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