
Windows Media Player
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
This Windows Media Player Skin has been my desire for a year now, fortunately for 2 days I tried to figure out how Kaiman skins work and started to create Windows Media Player Skin. I hope you'd love it, as I did creating it for 10 hours in 2 days. it looks better than 'Excellent' and 'Milk-Chocolate' plugin interface. Please note that Fast Forward has 'Repeat' and 'Repeat all' and Maximize button has the 'Preferences' functions respectively. If you like it use it; else don't bother me about Copyrights please. I know what I did ;)
INSTALLATION: (copy it to ~/.kde/share/apps/noatun/skins/kaiman/)
Command:
$ mkdir -p ~/.kde/share/apps/noatun/skins/kaiman
$ cd ~/.kde/share/apps/noatun/skins/kaiman
$ tar -zxvf *WindowsMediaPlayer8.tgz
To see noatun as Windows Media Player, please do the following:
1. Enable Kaiman plugin from Preferences->Plugins->Kaiman [x] (Check it)
2. Click Apply
3. From the "Kaiman Skin" section (just appeared after click) select "Windows Media Player".
4. and click 'Apply' That's it.
oHyEAH
15 years ago
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matthewmx86
15 years ago
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mETz
18 years ago
If somebody wants a clean interface then he should take one of the plugins using the kde-gui instead of skins. Skins are there to prvoide a nice look, this skin for sure does not look nice
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asifalirizwaan
18 years ago
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pablorg
18 years ago
as sad as it may be, this great copy of the microsoft front-end is more usable/pleasant than several of the non-ripoff noatun interfaces.
maybe someone can come up with an inteface that is at once original, usable, and visually appealing
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tvon
18 years ago
Besides, people seem to enjoy making things look like something theyre not.....
*shrug*
Wheres the love?
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chmod666
18 years ago
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MrStickers9943
14 years ago
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wagner17
18 years ago
1. It gives newbies a sense of comfort when they 1st start using Linux.
2. Some of us run Linux at work but don't want the whole world to know that we are.
3. Some people think that in terms of user interface design and look Windows is pretty good. The boys at Redmond like to make their stuff look good even if under the hood it is not. After all they are trying to catch up to Apple.
I understand your point about Crossover and VMWare but unfortunately sometimes you have no choice. Besides I think you have it wrong Unix, Linux and Open Source are NOT here to battle the forces of evil. Although that is the motivation for a lot of people to use *nix and Linux but it is not the only reason. Open Source and Linux give you a choice, if I want my desktop to look like Windows I should be able to (we will ignore copyrights for now).
I personally appreciate people that make those Windows skins, themes and icons 'cause I need them.
Hope that help explains things a little.
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NetRAVEN5000
16 years ago
2. Why does it matter if u use Linux, as long as ur getting things done? i would think u'd want to show others that u use linux and also that u probably shouldn't b playing mp3s at work.
3. microsoft has been trying to pretty things up lately but this skin looks like it's created based on windows 98 or 2000. also, if u wanna go for that look, u can make ur entire desktop look that way - u don't need a skin.
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kwr2k
18 years ago
So, i don't see why I cannot have Windoze LnF on my PC. Consider if M$ was not all that devilish in its monopolistic policies and was a really 'open' company -- would you still be looking at another OS? Probably not!
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NetRAVEN5000
16 years ago
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