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

[Jean-Philippe Guillemin]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> 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
All unmaintained and deprecated

>
>
>> 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.

CLI is OK for geeks like us, which represent 0,1 % of the users base.

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

I think I understand what you mean :)

>
> Guillaume