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Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian



On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:54:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> mplayer is quite slick.  I really like how the GUI is optional in
> mplayer, and fail to grasp how people coming from Windows see this as
> a bug.  Media players don't need 40,000 pounds of chrome over them
> about as much as they need to be web browsers, and I think a good
> portion of Windows users agree (contrary to the existance of Windows
> Media Player).  Honestly, what do these people expect?

In fact I don't think I've ever even got mplayer's GUI to work. I guess
if I had to I'd figure it out, but there's really so little incentive to
do so ...

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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