[vlc-devel] Rethinking the Mac OS X GUI

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:39:40PM +0200, Georg Seifert wrote :
> I would like to help refine it further and implement it. I know cocoa  
> well enough to do this.

More help is very welcome.

Our Mac OS X developers are not growing, but Mac OS community is.

Best

>> Due to my work on the new VLC document icons, I've licked blood,
>> and would like to contribute a bit more to the VLC project.
>>
>> Let me just quickly introduce myself.
>> My name is Dominic Spitaler, I'm 17 years old and from Austria.
>> I am a graphic design & multimedia student visiting “die graphische”  
>> in Vienna.
>>
>> During the summer I'd like to rethink and redesign the GUI for VLC  
>> media player
>> on Mac OS X, as I believe that VLC is technologically probably the  
>> best player
>> out there, but the user interface trigs me (and a lot of other mac  
>> users) to use it,
>> and instead switch over to quicktime, which has a (in my believe)  
>> better GUI.
>>
>> I'm really interested in usability, interaction and user interface  
>> design,
>> for three years mac user and have a passion for beautiful icons &  
>> UI's.
>> I have some experience in developing Windows applications and am  
>> currently
>> learning Cocoa, as my main OS has been Mac OS X for three years.
>>
>> I'd work together with a friend and colleague of mine.
>>
>> I think some main issues we'll try to fix in VLC will be:
>>
>> 	- Redesign & rethink the GUI to be easier to use, to learn and more  
>> efficient
>>
>> 	- Update the visual appearance
>> 		- to fix inconsistencies like different VLC icons all over the UI  
>> (Preferences, About)
>> 		- to be visually pleasing
>> 		- for 10.5 Leopard (respectively Snow Leopard)
>>
>> 	- Make sure, the VLC interface follows the Apple Human Interface  
>> Guidelines
>>
>> 	- Maybe change some default settings (f.E a better subtitle font,…)
>>
>>
>> I hope our work would be appreciated,
>>
>> Dominic
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