[MPlayer-dev-eng] Switching to gtk2.0

[Attila Kinali]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 11:31:22AM +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote:
 
> > Mplayer on win32 is yet a good alternative to the bugged directshow
> > system, that loses often the audio/video sync. But most of users
> > are not happy to use a command line player on windows (perhaps this is
> > not directly my problem).
> They are simply not used to do it. Though they often don't even need the
> commandline and just have to associate MPlayer with the movie files they
> like to be played back in MPlayer. But unfortunately they are not very
> used to keyboard driven control either. But all that is another story
> and besides that, i think a GUI for a movie player is a nice thing to have.

This is really not a big deal. You give them MPlayer, tell
them how to use it (drag&drop, basic key commands) and they
happily use it. You would be surprised how much Windaus can learn
if they want to :)

But anyways. IMHO the gui should be completly rewriten using
a portable aproach/widget set, but this requires also a bunch
of changes on how mplayer works as currently the gui needs
hooks everywhere in the code. This was one of the reasons
for G2.

			Attila Kinali