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Interview with Milosz Derezynski (BMPx)

Submitted by Eugenia on Wed, 2006-09-27 13:38. Gnome Multimedia
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BMPx is a GTK+ media player rewritten from the ground up on the foundation of BeepMediaPlayer. Originally started as a "behind doors" project, BMPx aims high and will get there very soon. Version 0.30.x was launched just days ago in a totally new form that drops the old Winamp-style look, bringing a more iTunes-like interface that will soon support SVG themes. Let's see what the lead developer of BMPx (Milosz Derezynski) has to say about his creation in this detailed question-and-answer session.

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bmpx is a mistery to me by Anonymous George (not verified)
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Another fork? by Anonymous George (not verified)
BMPx is a continuation, not a fork by Anonymous George (not verified)
Media players are the new text editors by Anonymous George (not verified)
sadly i have to agree by Anonymous George (not verified)

Bad Boys

Submitted by vinci on Thu, 2006-09-28 06:33.

Well I think you all sound a bit hard but there is much truth in it. I think most programmers do not care much about cooperation. And I think essentially projects like GNOME are about cooperation.

BTW: Personally I like Muine the most - simple interface. I think all this itunes clones are vroken by design


http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/

Or window managers. Or IRC clients. by Anonymous George (not verified)

Short answer

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Fri, 2006-09-29 09:28.

(I'm one of the listed developers)

1. It's relatively easy to write a player
2. Everybody has a different idea of how a player should be.

Replace 'player' with 'window managers' and 'IRC clients' as appropriate.

There is no wastage if the programmers in question never wanted to work on anything else or with everyone else.

I'd rather be spoiled for choice then be forced to use something I'm uncomfortable with.