[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer _NET_WM_PID patch

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:19:46PM +0200, Michele Balistreri wrote:
> This patch makes MPlayer more NetWM compliant, setting the pid of the 
> application as a property of the window. It helps the applications trying to 
> swallow mplayer (e.g. a browser plugin).

IMHO, this should only be done when the MPlayer client is local. Also,
why would a browser plugin (etc) want to 'swallow' MPlayer like this?
There are perfectly good -wid and -slave options.

I'm not saying this patch isn't useful, but it'd be good to know the
reasons behind it.

Rich