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

Anton Khirnov wyskas at gmail.com
Sat Jun 12 12:16:27 CEST 2010


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:17:43AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Not really, I don't see a point in dropping it for the purpose of dropping
> it, and sometimes fixing the issues it causes reminds us of some features
> that were actually _only_ available in gmplayer but never in MPlayer
> (VCD track switching).

The point for removing it is that it actively confuses people into
thinking that it's the preferred/recommended GUI, while in fact it's
anything but.

> Right now I don't see a real cost in keeping it, slowly squezzing out remaining
> users via rot.
> If you want to raise awareness, you might change the --enable-gui to
> --enable-deprecated-gui or such?
Since many (most?) users use distro versions, this won't solve the
problem i think.

Anton Khirnov
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