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mwiktowy
2006-09-13 , 16:30
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I guess it's better to have the option to install these apps in your own time if at all.
Ya ... I have been struggling with that concept.
Is it better to bundle all these related functionalities into one app that risks becoming bloated with things that most people don't want or won't use? ...
... Or do you have a separate tool for each and every sub-task and have all these separate UI entry points to do slight variations of the same thing?
My personal pet peave is that I have to have two different players to play both mp3s and ogg ... and now a third to play uPnP streams. While I love having the functionality, I'd love it even more if it was bundled under the same tool and I was able to build a playlist that combined all three sources. I was under the impression that that was what gstreamer was all about ... creating a plugable media layer that you could put whatever UI you wanted over top. But it doesn't seem to be used that way on the 770.
That other app that accompanied the ParkWifi detector, the ParkWifi Parkcast, is another example of another app doing a slightly related thing. I suppose if you have enough of these things, you can pick the one you like best and tailor your 770 to your likes. The downside is that the developer base gets somewhat dilluted so each app doesn't progress towards functionality and stability as fast as I might otherwise.
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