<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Today I started to do some conceptual work for the new Mac OS X user interface for VLC and noticed a thing, I think I should discuss:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- What is VLC media player?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -1px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">VLC more and more changes from a “simple” movie player, to an iTunes like application, that offers media library organizations, etc. I never thought of VLC as a media manager before, but I saw how much it can already do and what will all be added this <a href="http://wiki.videolan.org/SoC_2009/Media_Library"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #183f9d">summer</span></a>.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -1px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -1px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Now I've implemented all those features in my gui concepts (which you'll see soon), but what about the people who just want a movie/audio player? What's VLC's default behaviour? Will it import all the files you give it, or wil it play them in a minimized playback window? And how do I as a user decide whether I want VLC to manage my data or not?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">I think we need to answer those questions before I/we can continue to work on the new UI.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Regards,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Dominic</div></div></body></html>