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

[Alexander Strasser]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> > 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?
This is the right way to go imho!
Won't be worth the work to just port, would be better to make a complete
rewrite and keep skin compatibility ( converter is also ok ).

  Alex (beastd)