[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] MacOS X Application Bundle Support

Nicolas Plourde nicolas.plourde at sympatico.ca
Wed Dec 22 22:34:40 CET 2004



> Nicolas Plourde writes:
>> Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>>>
>>> You can be sure that I will vote for _removing_ our current Gui 
>>> before I
>>> agree on adding yet another such a permanently broken piece of crap.
>>> And that's what it will become unless it only uses slave mode and 
>>> then
>>> there's no need to have it in MPlayer's cvs dir (a Gui is a lot of 
>>> code
>>> to download for people who have no use for it).
>>>
>> I agree. But why not removing the current gtk gui?
>
> Sidenote: It's a mix of GTK and xlib unfortunately, if it were GTK
> only it would be easily portable to Windows and Mac OS X and much more
> useful.
>
> I don't see why we should remove the GUI (without a good replacement).
> Some people do like having a GUI, there's no need to take it away from
> them.  MPlayer is around 27M uncompressed (4.9M compressed), the Gui
> dir is about 1.1M (175k compressed).  That's not an unbearable amount
> of bloat IMO.
>

Is it possible to remove all gui (xlib&gtk) code from mplayer and place 
it all in libgui ?
this way it would be possible to create a dyn library for it and create 
native gui for other
platform by using dynamic library.

====
Nicolas Plourde <nicolas.plourde at sympatico.ca>




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