[MPlayer-dev-eng] GUI status

[Nico Sabbi]

On Monday 07 April 2008 12:22:46 Guillaume LECERF wrote:
> 2008/4/7, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org>:
> >  Here's an idea, though. Let's put a news entry on the website,
> >  saying: "Call for GUI maintainer(s)! If you don't step up and
> > help us maintain the GUI, we're going to remove it after the next
> > release." or something similar.
>
> Or even better :
>
> "Call for GUI maintainer(s) and libmplayer writers! If you don't
> step up and help
> us maintain the GUI or to isolate it from mplayer code through
> libmplayer, we're going to remove it after the next release."
>
> As Ben said, the idea of libmplayer could be a good start at
> reviewing, eventually fixing and enhancing the slave mode.
> Thus, frontends projects could unify their efforts on libmplayer,
> resulting in a global improvement of this part of mplayer code.
>
> Just my 2 cents.

IMO there's really nothing to maintain in the old GUI. It's hopeless,
and as such just a waste of time