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#25
Originally Posted by ClockworkCar View Post
and Kagu is the only player that displays artwork without any weird anomalies (UKMP take note!) I especially love the full screen album art view.
I appreciate the praise. However, I feel that it's important to note that without UKMP and Canola, there would be no Kagu. I'm not trying to say that Kagu is better than either player. I'm merely trying to point out that UKMP's scrolling album art inspired Kagu's album art. In fact many things in Kagu were taken either directly or indirectly from UKMP. We owe a lot to konttori for his ideas and code.

In addition, it's important to point out that we probably wouldn't have kinetic scrolling in Kagu if I hadn't used Canola first and thought "hmmmm.... touchable media.... why not draggable media?!?" No, Kagu wasn't inspired by the iPhone. In fact, I have never used an iPhone, and we had a usable kinetic scroll widget before I saw my first iPhone commercial on TV. Kagu's kinetic scrolling was inspired almost entirely by Canola's menu system, then later by UKMP's scrolling album art (this was before UKMP had kinetic scrolling).

It's important to give credit where credit is due, and both Canola and UKMP have played a huge role in the creation of Kagu.