[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer name change [AGAIN]

[Diego Biurrun]

Diego Biurrun writes:
> Alex Beregszaszi writes:
> > > I think it is time for a name change.  No, not what you think, MPlayer
> > > shall remain MPlayer.  But the complete name
> > > 
> > >   MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux
> > > 
> > > is highly misleading nowadays that MPlayer runs on almost everything
> > > that can distinguish between 0 and 1 except the old Mac OS.
> > > 
> > > My suggestion is just to shorten the name a bit:
> > > 
> > >   MPlayer - The Movie Player
> > > 
> > > What do you think?
> > I propose MPlayer - Open Source Move Player
> > or Free Movie Player
> 
> I still stand by my original proposal, since it is the least
> invasive.  Having Linux in the name is absurd when you are so
> portable.  Adding open source might not be liked by the free software
> folks and vice versa.  Media player sounds good, but MPlayer still has
> to grow a bit into the interactive direction for this and maybe
> support DVD menus, flash, stuff like that.  The next name change
> should be to "the media player" ;).
> 
> Just talked to Alex and Sascha about this on IRC, they're OK with that
> name.  Any objections?

No objections were made, name change coming soon.

Diego