[Gllug] Re: Ogle DVD

[Tethys]

Ian Norton writes:

>you might want to give gmplayer a go, it is a fairly good gui for mplayer,
>allows easy configuration of stuff like frame dropping if you find that it
>lags somtimes

No, gmplayer is an *awful* GUI. It has fixed size bitmap fonts, tiny
icons with non-intuitive imagery and no tool tips, breaks pretty much
every existing desktop metaphor by being gratuitiously different for
no obvious reason (and no apparent gain), and doesn't play nicely with
window managers.

xmms, and winamp before it, had legitimate reasons for taking the approach
they did. Whether you agree with those reasons or not is another matter.
However, i find it distressing that so many other projects have followed
the same approach, without having the reasons behind it. Multimedia GUI
interfaces generally suck these days because of it.

Tet
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