[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Rename option guiwid

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de
Sun Jun 5 13:35:02 CEST 2011


On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 07:28:02AM -0400, compn wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:09:04 +0200, Ingo Brückl wrote:
> >I wrote on Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:24:04 +0200:
> >
> >> All GUI related options with corresponding MPlayer option '-optname'
> >> should be named '-gui_optname'.
> >
> >It should read -gui-optname, so -gui-wid.
> 
> uhhhhh, wont this break all guis ?
> 
> probably not a good idea unless you keep the old options for backwards
> compatability.

GUIs will rarely use the GUI I'd say.
Otherwise it would be sensible to keep the old option around.
And actually it make sense to at least keep the old option around
as CONF_TYPE_PRINT to inform of the new name.


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