[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC][PATCH]removing gmplayer

[Anton Khirnov]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:55:36PM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> On 6/14/09, Anton Khirnov <wyskas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > i think it's time to finally remove gmplayer. It's ugly and unmaintained
> > and apparently no devs even use it. People who ask for help in #mplayer
> > are always just told to use SMPlayer or some other frontend. Also it
> > seems that most its users simply don't know that there are other (much
> > better) options than gmplayer.
> >
> > I'm attaching a patch that removes it, except for the 'svn rm gui/'
> > part, because it'd make the patch too big.
> >
> > Comments?
> 
> I'm against.
> It may be unmaintained, but so is the rest of mplayer.
> The gui works just fine and there is no reason to remove it.
>

It's not only unmaintained, it's also unsupported. As you very well
know, nobody ever gets help with gmplayer in #mplayer, they're just told
to use SMPlayer. From what i saw it's pretty much the same on
mplayer-users list. IMO having an "official" GUI just prevents people
from using superior alternatives.

Anton Khirnov