[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] Advertising Slave mode

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 8/23/05, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 August 2005 at 20:51, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 8/23/05, Oded Shimon <ods15 at ods15.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:31:02PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > > > mplayer-slave.1 (and maybe bind mplayer-slave to "mplayer -slave". I'm
> > > > not sure if what I'm saying is clear, but I'm sure ppl see the point.
> > >
> > > You lost me on the 'bind' thing.. (you do know that '-slave' is a
> > > legitimate command line option?..)
> >
> > Of course. What I meant by bind is like adding a shell script that
> > launches mplayer in slave mode when you call 'mplayer-slave'. Off
> > course, the command line arguments of mplayer-slave would have to be
> > "forwarded".
> 
> A symlink would suffice, with the addition that we could automatically
> switch on the slave mode if the binary is called mplayer-slave.

Okay. good idea, I hadn't think of that.


> > > I'm not sure if i preffer XML docs of man page for this thing.. i actually
> > > preffer the text file.. Text files for me personally have the biggest
> > > advantage of being the easiest thing to read, no special tool necessary and
> > > very little is "enhanced" by using other formats... but I do see your point
> > > in it not being popular...
> >
> > slave.txt is organised in a man page-like layout. converting to a man
> > page won't be too time consuming.
> 
> And not a bad idea it is. I second that.

Good. It's already done and out in the wild! :)

Please review and comment

Best regards,


Guillaume
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