2008-02-22, 17:54
Ubuntu developers are currently developing their own GUI framework for a basic "Mobile Media Player" to be included with the Ubuntu Mobile And Embedded operating-system.
It made me wonder, why did they opt to make all that from scratch when they could just have well used XBMC as the base(?), (I mean, XBMC was originally designed to run on an embedded-system like that and is thus already small and memory efficient, perfect to be used as a such mobile media player), ...so I thought, why not show them what XBMC can do?!
So I am proposing a challenge:
The challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to, as a XBMC skinner, clone/replicate the current Ubuntu Mobile Media Player skin/theme design, and make it have the exact same navigation but running under XBMC. Also, make that skin as mouse (and touchscreen) friendly as possible, because the skin is primarily design to run a small (7-inch) touchscreen display.
The concept:
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileAndEmbedded/MediaPlayer
UI Style Guide (Navigation):
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileAndEmbedded/UIStyleGuide
Launchpad Entry:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/...ediaplayer
The good thing about this is, since their current Mobile Media Player for Ubuntu is open source you will not have to recreate their textures/images from scratch, instead just have to copy them directly for Ubuntu and use them 'as is', (so in theory you should not really need that much graphics talent to pull this of), ...however improvements over the original are of course more than welcomed as long as they are in the overall spirit of the current design layout.
Idea; why not team up with a few people in order not to carry the full burden yourself
The question is now; are there any volunteer(s)?
Good luck!
It made me wonder, why did they opt to make all that from scratch when they could just have well used XBMC as the base(?), (I mean, XBMC was originally designed to run on an embedded-system like that and is thus already small and memory efficient, perfect to be used as a such mobile media player), ...so I thought, why not show them what XBMC can do?!
So I am proposing a challenge:
The challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to, as a XBMC skinner, clone/replicate the current Ubuntu Mobile Media Player skin/theme design, and make it have the exact same navigation but running under XBMC. Also, make that skin as mouse (and touchscreen) friendly as possible, because the skin is primarily design to run a small (7-inch) touchscreen display.
The concept:
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileAndEmbedded/MediaPlayer
UI Style Guide (Navigation):
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileAndEmbedded/UIStyleGuide
Launchpad Entry:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/...ediaplayer
The good thing about this is, since their current Mobile Media Player for Ubuntu is open source you will not have to recreate their textures/images from scratch, instead just have to copy them directly for Ubuntu and use them 'as is', (so in theory you should not really need that much graphics talent to pull this of), ...however improvements over the original are of course more than welcomed as long as they are in the overall spirit of the current design layout.
Idea; why not team up with a few people in order not to carry the full burden yourself
The question is now; are there any volunteer(s)?
Good luck!