[MPlayer-users] MPlayer 1rc1 GUI ISO-8859-2 issues

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 18 December 2006 at 22:43, Jerzy Goca wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > On Monday, 18 December 2006 at 22:21, Jerzy Goca wrote:
> >   
> >> I'm trying to correct it, changing the encoding into utf8 (using the
> >> glib-2 conversion functions) just before passing the strings to the GTK+
> >> functions. This however will break the GTK+-1 compatibility.
> >> As I see, the gui is just a legacy of GTK+-1. Are you going to keep this
> >> legacy?
> >> Sorry to say, the code is rather ugly. So far I found several memory
> >> leaks in the code in the file fs.c.
> >> While analysing the code, I tend to think of rewriting the gtk part of
> >> the gui from the very beginning (keeping the existing functionality).
> >>     
> >
> > You're welcome to do it. Nobody is maintaining the GUI now.
> >   
> So I get to work. However using glib-2 will break the gtk-1 compatibility.
> I hope it won't be a problem.

Several developers said it wouldn't. One had some reservations but I think
he won't mind. Go ahead and good luck. ;)

Make sure you read http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/patches.txt before
submitting any patches.

Regards,
R.

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