XMMS Plugin Competition Closed - Voting Started

Jakdaw was one of the countless hordes who wrote with the news that the XMMS plugin competition is now closed to new enteries. You can grab the new plug-ins, tinker around with them, and than vote for your favourite.

Re:Typical open source?

It's funny, because if xmms didn't exist, you or some other casual Linux user would be complaining about the lack of a program like Winamp. I hardly think xmms is cheap - it does its job very well.

I also wonder what you mean by "wasting it" - what is "it"? Time? People write software like this in their spare time, and they write what they want to. If they had to write software that they didn't want to write, it wouldn't be fun anymore.

Anyway. I agree that we need better software, and maybe a killer app or two, but it's still important to keep up with ubiquitous Windows software.

Your post is written quite like a troll. I'm glad some moderator realized that your post does, in fact, make some kind of point.
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Install xmms-devel

I'm sure this would probably be pretty obvious to an experienced Linux user, but nowhere does it mention that none of these plug-ins will work without xmms-devel or the xmms source installed. That was kind of annoying until I figured it out.
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skins, plugins, et al. for all apps?

I've been wondering...instead of just making apps themable, would it be possible to make them modular/skinable/etc.?

More generally, how far can non-rectangular apps go? For example, could one create a word processor whose main window is a circle? I don't mean just the outer frame with menus or toolbars, but the actual text entry window. Of course, most language don't work that way, but is there the possibility of a meta- or para-language that could utilize such a display?

Granted, it would be weird/alien/scary for a while, but is anyone even considering such things?

I can think of three apps that 'break out of the box'. There's the Hyperbolic Tree apps from Inxight, The Brain from I don't know who, and the file manager I started to write 'FxM [lsu.edu]' which is currently on hold while I do more planning.

try 'em all please!

To be fair to everyone who put in time and effort writing plugins for the competition...

Before you vote, please try the latest versions of all the competition plugins. A lot of them have changed drastically since they were first submitted to the competition, fixing a lot of bugs in the process.

A lot of people spent a bunch of time writing these plugins, so please, at least do them the honor of seeing their work.


"You want to kiss the sky? Better learn how to kneel." - U2

Mirror

Here's a few mirrors of the sites.

Note- You still can't vote, it's just to get the plug-ins to evaluate... at least u can make an informed desicion before you vote ;-)

MIRRORS
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UK - http://uk.xmms.org/plugins.html
US (virginia)- http://us.xmms.org/plugins.html
US (los angeles)- http://ca.us.xmms.org/plugins.html
US (maryland)- http://md.us.xmms.org/plugins.html
Holland- http://nl.xmms.org/plugins.html
Germany- http://de.xmms.org/plugins.html