[MPlayer-users] MPlayer 1rc1 GUI ISO-8859-2 issues

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 18 December 2006 at 22:21, Jerzy Goca wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to get MPlayer to display properly polish 'ogonki' in the gui.
> Analysis of the code showed me that it can't work properly in my system
> because I don't use the utf-8 encoding (I am happy with my ISO-8859-2).
> All the messages in the console are displayed correctly and are
> correctly translated.
> I'm trying to correct it, changing the encoding into utf8 (using the
> glib-2 conversion functions) just before passing the strings to the GTK+
> functions. This however will break the GTK+-1 compatibility.
> As I see, the gui is just a legacy of GTK+-1. Are you going to keep this
> legacy?
> Sorry to say, the code is rather ugly. So far I found several memory
> leaks in the code in the file fs.c.
> While analysing the code, I tend to think of rewriting the gtk part of
> the gui from the very beginning (keeping the existing functionality).

You're welcome to do it. Nobody is maintaining the GUI now.

> However it would be a waste of time if you are going to release a new
> version soon....

There are no specific plans at this time. Sometime early next year.

> Are there any plans to correct/change the gui in the next release?

Not that I know of, no.

Regards,
R.

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