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| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>gnustep@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Gentoo GNUstep Project</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription> |
| Cynthiune (january 2004) |
| ========= |
| |
| What is Cynthiune? |
| ------------------ |
| Cynthiune is a free software and romantic music player for GNUstep and MacOSX. |
| I wrote it originally as a christmas gift to a girl that I liked because she |
| could not listen to music on her Mac with a free program. Since then, I decided |
| to make it public and add even more features to make it a complete and useable |
| media player. |
| |
| For the moment, it looks pretty much like XMMS, Winamp and similar software. |
| Even though it has far less features than those, the essential components of a |
| usable and user-friendly program are there in my opinion. |
| |
| From a programmatic point-of-view, I have decided to write a program that is |
| released only when considered bug-free. The free software community lacks, |
| IMnsHO, a sense of quality that makes its programs nearly useless to |
| lambda users. Not only is it useless, but I think it also gives free software |
| a bad reputation. The principle of freedom in "free software" is fundamental |
| to me, but it has to be reachable not only by some sort of geeky elite. There |
| is no point in telling users that since they have the freedom to enhance those |
| programs, they must fix them if they want to use them. Releasing a program |
| with too many bugs is of no use and is likely not to interest other fellow |
| programmers in the community either. |
| |
| On the other hand, Apple has published an interesting program called "iTunes". |
| Of course, it is not free software but it does implement interesting ideas |
| that I would like to include in Cynthiune. For example: CD burning, complete |
| playlist management, etc... Personally I find its user interface to be not as |
| user-friendly as it could be. My plan is thus to take advantage of my own |
| programming skills and sense of aesthetics (and ergonomy) to try to write |
| something a little bit different, inspired both by XMMS/Winamp and iTunes. |
| Cynthiune is thus currently very basic but its core design is starting to be |
| extensible enough that it will not be too much trouble to enhance it. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |