whats with this love of kaffiene?

[Scott van Looy]

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? :)

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