[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:
> Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > Unfortunately, gmplayer isn't actively maintained by anyone.
> >
> > Guillaume
>
> What a pity ! mplayer is a media player, so it's supposed to be a
> desktop application : considering this, I believe that the frontend is
> as important as the rest of the application..
>
> And as far as I know, there's no other mplayer GTK frontend available.

There seem to be at least 2 other GTK front-ends listed here:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html


> Without a frontend, mplayer is useless. too bad for the best GNU Linux
> media player :(

I disagree. MPlayer is quite usable from command line. It's also quite
usable if you just make it the default media player to open media
files, one at a time from a graphical environment such as gnome or
kde.

Off course, playlist support it's nice without a gui.

Guillaume
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