[MPlayer-dev-eng] Switching to gtk2.0

[Sascha Sommer]

On Saturday 31 July 2004 05:22, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:35:35PM +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:44:58AM +0200, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> > > Using gtk2 can permit also compiling gui on win32.
> >
> > Why should this help? It compiles even in the given version under
> > win32 AFAIK, if you try hard. But that is because of the X deps
> > in the GUI. A transition to GTK2 and away from X is planned but it
> > will be somehow more involved then just switching libs.
> >
> >   Alex (beastd)
>
> Gtk1.2 doesn't exists on windows, there are 1.3 + glib2.0 versions around
> but ar not very suitable.
> I've looked into gui source and yes there is a lot of non win32
> portable stuff.
> Btw I think mplayer should move to gtk2 since most of additional stuff
> compiled in has already support for version 2 of glib2 then mplayer
> whould be linked against glib1.2 and glib2.0 (at least on my system).
> The first step can be switching only the libs (it should be harmfull).

Agree if it is not much work and stays optional.

> The second step should be remove the X11-only code and use the
> corresponding stuff in gtk2.0 so mplayer will have a gui also on win32.
> Mplayer on win32 is yet a good alternative to the bugged directshow
> system, that loses often the audio/video sync. But most of users
> are not happy to use a command line player on windows (perhaps this is
> not directly my problem).

I'm not sure about this step. If you look deeper into the gui code you will
notice that removing the X11 code will end up in half a rewritte anyway.
The only thing you can keep is the skinloader afair.
So I think a new mutliplatform gtk2 gui, that supports the old MPlayer skins 
and has a clean interface to MPlayer is the way to go. This could then also 
be used for G2.
Or maybe we should also make the skin format a bit more modular and
only write a converter for the old skins?

Sascha