[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] double click to switch to full screen in GUI

[Uoti Urpala]

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 22:24 +0100, laurent wozniak wrote:
> Apart from this, I don't see how it could be possible to maintain the GUI
> since few people are interested in it and there is not that many maintainers
> to push in this part of the code.

The current GUI sucks. Because it sucks so badly most developers do not
use it (they must be able to use the command line, and if you can use
that there is not much point in using the bad GUI). Because they won't
use it anyway they're not interested in minor improvements.

> I've even seen in another thread someone wishing the GUI to be dropped.
> Well, this would mean stopping using MPlayer for all the people/users I 
> know, me included.
> After all, when you install MPlayer from yum or apt for a distro, you 
> only get a menu shortcut to the GUI,

I don't think anyone opposes the general idea of having a GUI. But the
current GUI codebase might not be worth keeping.

> My point is: How could I help with the GUI if there is nobody to review 
> my code,
> and therefore my patches vanish into the limbo of forgotten ?

To get the GUI to a level that could be considered good would require a
major rewrite. Doing that with patches so that each change is posted as
an individually applicable patch would not be practical; it'd require
huge patches that basically replace Gui/ with something else. If you
want to just fix a few of the worst problems while leaving the GUI
basically as sucky as it is now most people probably won't care much.
If you want to write a proper GTK2 replacement for the current GUI then
I'd say you need to either write it locally and post one patch for
replacing the current GUI once it's ready or wait until you convince
people to give you SVN access because of other patches.