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I’ve felt a little bit of chastisement from some people because I don’t seem to have posted the reasons as to why I am creating this program. I know there are presentation programs for linux, such as OpenOffice.org Impress, but my purpose is not to make a PowerPoint clone. I said that this will be for generic slides, with lyrics added in, but the whole purpose is to make presenting lyrics easier, and maybe allow people to create presentations quicker and easier than they could in PowerPoint or Impress. It is going to be similar to EasyWorship, but with quite a few changes that I think will make it easier to the user.
This project will mostly be a learning experience. I’ve done some research, and the only real open-source alternative is OpenSong, but I cannot contribute to that project because the developing environment costs money. I think it has a lot of usability issues myself, such as inputting lyrics and chords. The program I am working on has no aim to add in chords. I said something about having sheet music, but that’s not going to happen in the near future because I realize that it is so complicated.
I’ve expected some better response in the open source community than I have received. If all that comes out of it is more experience in programming, I’ll be fine with that.
I think it’s a great idea to come up with an improved program. Don’t let people dissuade you from accomplishing your goals.
The only thing I can suggest is that you make your efforts beneficial to users by providing additional functionality, reliability, or ease of use which would make your efforts worthwhile.
Adding the ability to have an animated or video quicktime background would be awesome!
Animation and Video backgrounds is actually something I’d like to do, but I’m new to creating graphics. I’m using cairo to render graphics, but I think I’ll have to move to SDL or something similar to get advanced effects.
Thanks for the kind words, you don’t know how much I appreciate it.