Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 11:14 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote:
>> I'd like to hear what dirk has to say about the state of skins in 2.0,
>> and given some time over the next two evenings I may just have some cool
>> layouts and some nice eye candy to keep you tempted.
>
> I can't speak to the skin subsystem, but I can say that the underlying
> canvas architecture will have no technical limitations that I can think
> of (except for possibly CPU limitations).  Whatever you can imagine in
> terms of design and layout, or even how video itself interacts with the
> application, the canvas should be able to do.  It will be possible to
> put video on the canvas, so if you want an interface that has a small
> thumbnail view of the video (even translucent if you like) in the corner
> while you're navigating the menus, and when you're done and want to view
> the video, it can slide and zoom and fade back in as it goes to full
> screen, the canvas will make all this possible.
>
> Now I don't know if the skin system will.  I think if you have a
> specific need for some feature, dischi or someone else could probably
> add it, but I don't want to speak for him. :)

Yes. Right now the skin supports no animation at all and the animation
code in Freevo itself only support fade in/out and move objects. I
guess we need to rewrite the skin code once you finished canvas, I
integrated it and Karl wrote his ideas we need to put in fxd style.



Dischi

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