I'm the author of the oKle DVD player (for KDE). Many comments are complaining about ugly user interfaces - and rightfully so! I also thought of xine and mplayer being unusable by non-experts. So I scratched that itch and wrote my own player (based on the Ogle engine) where the goal was high usability and less eye-candy. It has full support for DVD menus and also more exotic features like bookmarks or taking screenshots. If you are not content with xine and mplayer - go and try oKle and please let me know what you think of it!
Some months ago I wrote a short paper on the (then, 0.9.12) new XINE user interface which was really horrible to use. They took that "real-world device" metaphor too far; you can also observe this in other (preferably multimedia) programs (a detailed analysis on the Apple Quicktime Player can be found on the Interface Hall of Shame), XMMS also comes to my mind as an example on how not to do it.
So: Better have one theme that keeps focus on usability than tons of ugly, non-intuitive and mis-metaphored skins.
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You misunderstand: It was German and said "DIE TEACHER DIE".
The distro is called "WIENUX". The city of "Vienna" is called "Wien" in German, so it is an intended pun.
:-) )
"Wein" would be "wine" in English (we do have very good wine in Wien, though
I'm the author of the oKle DVD player (for KDE). Many comments are complaining about ugly user interfaces - and rightfully so! I also thought of xine and mplayer being unusable by non-experts. So I scratched that itch and wrote my own player (based on the Ogle engine) where the goal was high usability and less eye-candy. It has full support for DVD menus and also more exotic features like bookmarks or taking screenshots. If you are not content with xine and mplayer - go and try oKle and please let me know what you think of it!
Some months ago I wrote a short paper on the (then, 0.9.12) new XINE user interface which was really horrible to use. They took that "real-world device" metaphor too far; you can also observe this in other (preferably multimedia) programs (a detailed analysis on the Apple Quicktime Player can be found on the Interface Hall of Shame), XMMS also comes to my mind as an example on how not to do it.
So: Better have one theme that keeps focus on usability than tons of ugly, non-intuitive and mis-metaphored skins.