[MPlayer-dev-eng] bug - Window title icons are broken

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 12/8/06, Jean-Philippe Guillemin <jp.guillemin at free.fr> wrote:

> Jean-Philippe Guillemin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is a bug in Mplayer GUI (aka gmplayer) : window title bar icons don't work
> > when the GUI is first started. Window title bar icons are OK when I select
> > another windowed skin in the skin browser.
> >
> > I took a look in the code and found that Gmplayer doesn't uses
> > gtk_window_set_icon_name(), instead it uses the (old) XPM embeded bitmap thing.
> >
> > I was able to modify the GTK code to use gtk_window_set_icon_name() with all
> > windows, except for the main skined window, so maybe the actual (XPM) solution
> > is the right one, but it's broken.
> >
> > This bug was confirmed by several Zenwalk Linux users, on both XFCE, KDE, and
> > Gnome.
> >
> > Workaround : select another skin in skin browser.
> > Possible solution : use GTK2 API to fetch an SVG icon from icon theme or Hicolor
> > and put an Mplayer SVG window icon in $PREFIX/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/
> > (PNG can also be used, of course)
> >
> > I'm trying to make mplayer the main Media Player for Zenwalk Linux (will replace
> > XIne) and this bug is very annoying.


> Nobody cares ?
>
> If I didn't post to the right mailing list, please let me know :)

Unfortunately, gmplayer isn't actively maintained by anyone.

Guillaume
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