On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:42:45 +0100 (BST) Scott van Looy <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Today Patrick did spake thusly: > > > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 02:30 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Tim wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 21:25 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>>> mplayer does play the link just fine once I can figure out how to paste > >>>> the url into its requestor, but that brand new, teeny little control panel > >>>> it now has, hides the bottom half of it behind the kickstart panel so only > >>>> the top half shows up above the clipboard, kwallet, kmix etc icons just to > >>>> the left of the clock in the lower right corner of the screen. Kind of > >>>> worthless as above when you cannot get at any of its buttons. > > > > Haven't used KDE in centuries but while afaik it usually is not too much > > of a hassle to use Gnome apps on a KDE desktop this seems to be a fine > > example where it does not work very well together. Hardly fair to blame > > gmplayer or KDE for that. > > > >>> Yes, I've been annoyed with mplayer's habit of drawing the control panel > >>> too far down the screen. The only solution I found was to use a > >>> different skin, one that wasn't as tall. > >>> > >> And just how do you go about actually getting to the skin selector? > > > > If I right click on gmplayer the menu clearly shows "Skin Browser" > > Before you do that find, download and install a skin you like from: > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html > > > >> Or is this some concerted effort to make us upgrade our FC6 boxes to test3? > > > > Nope. > > Have ya tried gmplayer's lil brother, the KDE enabled versions of either > kmplayer or (my fave, even under gnome) kplayer? :) > Another one http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/linux/ -- Bob Marcan, Consultant mailto:bob.marcan@xxxxxx S&T Slovenija d.d. tel: +386 (1) 5895-300 Leskoskova cesta 6 fax: +386 (1) 5895-202 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia url: http://www.snt.si
