[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer name change

Gabucino gabucino at mplayerhq.hu
Fri Jan 23 22:00:13 CET 2004


Diego Biurrun wrote:
> The idea came to me when I updated the copyright date in the
> mplayer.rc (Windows resource) file.  It says
>   VALUE "FileDescription", "MPlayer - Movie Player for Linux\000"
> which is obviously quite nonsensical on Windows.
Why don't you just write "MPlayer - Movie Player" by yourself? There's no need
for any big "official" name changing announcements, because everyone already
knows MPlayer by just "MPlayer". People even think it's "Media Player".


> easily eclipse the Linux user base if some basic GUI is added.
We are still waiting for that...

-- 
Gabucino
MPlayer Core Team
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