[MPlayer-dev-eng] GUI

[Mayuresh Kathe]

> 
> On Thursday, 10. January 2002 12:36, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:45:26AM +0100, Jiri Svoboda wrote:
>> > Ni,
>> > I would like to know how much is GUI X and other libs dependent? Could
>> > somebody give a quick info?
>> > I would like to try to prot gui to DIrectFB if it is possible.
>>
>> Uhhhhm, nice .... ;-)
>> Afaik GUI was written with standard X library, but dialog boxes use 
libgtk.
>> But afaik, new generation of libgtk will support rendering widgets into
>> framebuffer instead of using Xlib.
> I dunno anything bout GTK but IMHO GUI should be fully GTK cause can run 
on 
> framebuffer or even on windooze so much more portable then xlib I guess.

I would recommend using Qt to write the whole GUI, that way it will be 
portable not just to Windows, but also, Macintosh, and embedded systems :)
(I had dropped a mail suggesting the above quite some time ago, but no 
one showed any interest)

~Mayuresh