[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer name change

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sat Jan 24 00:28:00 CET 2004


Gabucino writes:
 > Diego Biurrun wrote:
 > > The idea came to me when I updated the copyright date in the
 > > mplayer.rc (Windows resource) file.  It says
 > >   VALUE "FileDescription", "MPlayer - Movie Player for Linux\000"
 > > which is obviously quite nonsensical on Windows.
 > Why don't you just write "MPlayer - Movie Player" by yourself? There's no need
 > for any big "official" name changing announcements, because everyone already
 > knows MPlayer by just "MPlayer". People even think it's "Media Player".

I could of course change that line everywhere, I do have CVS write
access after all, but this is not a change to be made without previous
discussion.

 > > easily eclipse the Linux user base if some basic GUI is added.
 > We are still waiting for that...

Joey Parrish said he has something in the works.

Diego




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