[MPlayer-dev-eng] The future of a GUI

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 3/14/11, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2011, at 16:23, Ingo Brückl <ib at wupperonline.de> wrote:
>> Clément Boesch wrote on Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:29:40 +0100:
>>
>>> You know, there is no urge on making the GUI working fine. GUI has been
>>> dropped from default and we repeated to users not to use it and look for
>>> solutions like gnome-mplayer or smplayer. If users see massive commits on
>>> the GUI, they will think it's going to be better, while in fact, it's
>>> purely cosmetics; and this is not good. And it also pollute the history
>>> (not that important thought in this case).
>>
>> This gives me the bad feeling that working on the GUI is a complete waste
>> of
>> time.
>
> There is still a good amount of users left, I am sure they will be grateful.
> However you are still the only developer genuinely interested. Should you
> decide to leave before significantly removing GUI "tentacles" (note: more
> about GUI #ifdefs, I am not that much concerned about using things like the
> stream_ctrl functions, even though I'd prefer if it didn't) we would
> probably go back to preparing users for it's removal and most likely do it
> at some point.
> Hope that's neither unexpected nor too disappointing to you?

Honestly, if everybody have given up on the good old GUI, I don't see
why we shouldn't allow a little bit more freedom to the only developer
who is dedicated on it.

In worst case it would be good learning experience, in best case it
would allow designing new interface that other GUIs could use too.

I know that some developer(s) would be happy to have less code to care
about, but these people can ruin even the most popular or/and
successful project in just 6 months. They have been repeating this
deletion meme for far too long and many people have accepted it for a
fact.

Ingo, do your best.