[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] MSGTR_CoreDumped

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de
Mon May 9 20:32:12 CEST 2011



On 9 May 2011, at 14:09, Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/9/11, Ingo Brückl <ib at wupperonline.de> wrote:
>> compn wrote on Mon, 9 May 2011 06:54:01 -0400:
>> 
>>> maybe you'd be more interested in writing -dumpstream a status bar like
>>> wget has?
>> 
>> At the moment I'd rather focus on the GUI ... mostly.
> 
> How about adding at least some information like "NNN bytes written"?
> Even if the misleading message remains, the share size of the file may
> indicate that the requested work have been done.

While there haven't been many occurrences lately, most people had issues also because they had no idea where to look for the file.
Usability-wise I'd say adding some useful information would help far more than removing the joke, even though I never considered it particularly funny.


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