Adding more menus/options

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  Can you please consider adding more/moving the menu items. If not is there 
gonna be a config file for adding them manually sometime in the future. Adding 
more setting would be great as well.
Due to the big amount of additions, I am just going to give you a link to my 
favorite Windows player - Media Player Classic. It is a open source player 
written in C++ hosted on sourceforge.net. There are some screenshots on the 
homepage as well.
Take a quick look and say which one's you like, and hopefully add to the gnome-
mplayer project

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

P.S. Please change the type to Enhancement

Original issue reported on code.google.com by veliko...@tiscali.co.uk on 21 May 2009 at 2:07

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You're going to have to be specific about what you want... just saying make 
this app
look like this other app, it much to vague. I doubt many developers would even
consider this request.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 21 May 2009 at 1:01

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• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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I've tried to contact the author of Media Player Classic (MPC), reguarding this 
quiestion 
nearly a month ago, but still no answer. I did not meant to make gnome-mplayer 
like Media 
Player Classic, but to make the perfect feature set that can be really useful ( 
and not 
too big as well). Over the next few days I will show you my Menu and 
Preferences layout 
plus a Properties window. I am willing to write the source for them and for 
some of the 
functions as long as you approve them.

   Those is my idea of a perfect player.
Starting attached a file with the Main and Context menu

PS Sorry for any typos. All the key binds can be changed

Original comment by veliko...@tiscali.co.uk on 22 May 2009 at 1:14

Attachments:

• main_menu.txt
• context_menu.txt

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I don't know about some of this... Some of these items can't or shouldn't be 
done due
to what info mplayer gives us or some of your assumptions.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 22 May 2009 at 2:39

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One feature that MPC has and I want to see it in gnome-mplayer is the thumbnail-
screenshot generator (smplayer has a similar feature).

Original comment by cncminus...@gmail.com on 26 May 2009 at 7:27

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There is another project I have called 'nailer' that does this.

http://kdekorte.googlepages.com/nailer

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 26 May 2009 at 2:09

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kdekorte can you do a quick comment ( in file ) of the main and context menus. 
If 
you have any concerns of the implementation of some of the functions/procedures 
I 
think I may have a solution for it

Original comment by veliko...@tiscali.co.uk on 26 May 2009 at 6:52

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There are way to many changes proposed in these files I would prefer a much more
incremental discussion of them but here are my thoughts so far. BTW, I will not 
take
one gigantic patch that moves around all the menus in one shot, just to be 
clear.

Main Menu Stuff - 

DVD - we have to have the with and without menus support, due to old/broken 
mplayer's
in distributions. Specifically Ubuntu

TV - we can't reliably determine if someone has tv or not at compile time, think
about packagers like rpmfusion

Thumbnails - What does this do?

Properties (ie Details) used to be here, we moved it to the View menu

Status bar under the tracker, I really don't want a status bar there. I think it
clutters the interface

Presets - what are these preseting?

Fullscreen short cut of ALT-ENTER? I would prefer NO, since we have 5 or 6 ways 
of
doing that now.

Keep Aspect and Override->Default are the same thing, so that is redundant

Pan and Scan - very hard to make work reliably, skip it

Volume - totally unneeded in the menus

Play options totally complicate the interface... 
Frame Step, since we can't go backwards I don't want it
Goto, you can just click on the tracker

On top is a preference or something than can be handled by the window manager, 
so no
it doesn;t belong here.

After Playback - no way is Standy By, Hibernate, Shutdown or Logoff ever going 
in.

Navigate Menu - do we really need this, and really it applies to other media 
types as
well.. ie MKV files Also, some of it, mplayer really can't do.

Context Menu stuff...

Do we really need all those zoom options in there???

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 26 May 2009 at 7:18

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I made some modifications of the main and context menus. In the files there is 
answers for quiestions like "Do we really need all those zoom options in 
there???" 
etc. 
There is a file properties.jpg with a simple layout of the Properties dialog 
and a 
thumbs.jpg with a preview of the Thumbnails function ( a bit direfent from the 
Nailer project ).
Please share your thoughts about them.

Original comment by veliko...@tiscali.co.uk on 27 May 2009 at 4:53

Attachments:

• main_menu.txt
• context_menu.txt
• properties.jpg
• thumbs.jpg

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Main Menu -
I still think we need the option of with and without menus in the open dialog

The screenshot code in mplayer in mplayer doesn't really give us the option as 
to
where to save the file. Probably could be worked around, but not real clean. 
This
option is already under the Edit menu.

Thumbnails, see below

Properties, see below

The touch from options are tricky since mplayer really doesn't allow that. 
Would have
to get into cropping which must be done at movie start time, from what I can 
tell.
Window size change would require restart, reposition of mplayer stream. Really 
ugly
to implement. I have looked into it, and determined it was a pain to do.

After Playback - this is a personal opinion, I don't believe these options 
should be
in the application. I will not add them. There is a quit on complete option, 
but that
is as far as I will go.

Properties -
Only thing that Details doesn't show is the size,length and copyright. That 
could be
added quite easily. Most of this information is already present internally.

Thumbnails -
Feature is interesting, I just don't see why I would want to use it.

So far, I don't see why all the menu restructuring is needed. Adding additional
options is fine, but would prefer to not disrupt the entire interface.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 29 May 2009 at 3:47

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Lack of comments, so closing... discussion should be done on mailing list

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 2 Jul 2009 at 8:40

• Changed state: Done