[MPlayer-users] I wrote a newbie-oriented article on how to compile/install MPlayer and would greatly appriciate comments

[Martin Schuster]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 11:23:09AM -0700, Farrell Farahbod wrote:
> http://mysite.iptic.com/upgrdman/temp/mplayer/mplayer-article.html
>
Wow, great work, thanks, I think I'll point those n00bs to this page :)

Just some little remarks (I'm quite an asshole when it comes to
critizicing (sp?) a webpage, so don't take this negatively... :)

*) Maybe you want to set the BGCOLOR to white and the TEXT to black.
   I imagine the page looks awful for people who have set their
   browser to bright-text-on-dark-bg
*) Maybe sb. can find out how to start a terminal under KDE (defintely
   not me, /me not uses KDE :)
*) I think it would be nice to make a subdir for MPlayer, e.g. ~/MPlayer/,
   so the dirs don't clobber the $HOME (and confuse our poor user...)
*) Most likely (esp. when using --enable-gui), some lib*-dev will be
   missing. So you should tell the reader that he should respond to
   a message like "GTK 1.2+ not found" by installing libgtk1.2-dev
*) _Packages_! Don't ask a newbie to compile gcc!
   He should up/downgrade his gcc using the available packages.
   (dependency hell? Wrong distro :). no, really: Just look up,
   what depend's are broken, and make a list of all packages which
   have to be up/downgraded. I think it's easier (for the newbie)
   to install some packages...)
   
hth, and thanks again,
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