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Xface skin for Media Portal combines best of Apple and Microsoft UI
by Brad Linder, posted Sep 30th 2007 8:00AM
One of the nice things about open source media center applications like Media Portal is that you can create custom skins that rival, and might even surpass anything you can find in Windows Media Center, or even TiVo. A Media Portal has released a new skin that might just be cooler looking than any of the videos you'll use it to open.
The Xface skin borrows heavily from Apple's coverflow style. And the play/pause, fast forward/rewind buttons look an awful lot like the buttons in Windows Media Center 11. But copyright issues aside, the interface is sleek and offers a visually interesting and useful way to organize your movies, music, and photos.
On the other hand, this isn't the first time we've seen Media Portal developers rip off graphics from other products. But we're betting Apple and Microsoft lawyers might be too busy to take notice of Media Portal with its relatively small number of users. Still, we'd recommend redoing the media control buttons.
[via Missing Remote]
The Xface skin borrows heavily from Apple's coverflow style. And the play/pause, fast forward/rewind buttons look an awful lot like the buttons in Windows Media Center 11. But copyright issues aside, the interface is sleek and offers a visually interesting and useful way to organize your movies, music, and photos.
On the other hand, this isn't the first time we've seen Media Portal developers rip off graphics from other products. But we're betting Apple and Microsoft lawyers might be too busy to take notice of Media Portal with its relatively small number of users. Still, we'd recommend redoing the media control buttons.
[via Missing Remote]
