Remove the internal GUI

The GUI is badly designed and too closely coupled to the internal
details of other code. The GUI code is in bad shape and unmaintained
for years. There is no indication that anyone would maintain it in the
future either. Even if someone did volunteer to implement a better
integrated GUI having the current code in the tree probably wouldn't
help much. So get rid of it.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/DOCS/tech/MAINTAINERS b/DOCS/tech/MAINTAINERS
index 680906e4e2..fcd4566c41 100644
--- a/DOCS/tech/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/DOCS/tech/MAINTAINERS
@@ -84,8 +84,6 @@ MPlayer code:
     * playtree, input layer: Alban Bedel
     * libswscale: Michael Niedermayer, Luca Abeni
     * DVB support: Nico Sabbi
-    * GUI: None
-    * GUI skins: Diego Biurrun
     * EDL code: Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet, Oded Shimon
 
 Imported libs/projects:
diff --git a/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt b/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt
index 9d852372db..974a20d46f 100644
--- a/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt
+++ b/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt
@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@ the following features MUST be included in any official binary package:
 
 (*) if available for your OS/hardware
 
-There is great demand for the GUI, so it SHOULD be included, but it MUST
-come as a separate package (see Tips and Tricks for details).
-
 Including other features, like LIVE.COM streaming or JACK support, is
 acceptable. They SHOULD, however, be build-time configurable, with the
 default build configuration containing the above set.
@@ -111,7 +108,6 @@ for Red Hat and Fedora RPMs I am using FHS-compliant paths:
 /usr/share/doc/mplayer-version/ docs
 /usr/share/man/man1/            man page
 /usr/share/man/XX/man1/         translated man page
-/usr/share/mplayer/skins/       GUI skins
 
 You MUST NOT include the codecs.conf file in your package. It is useful
 only for development purposes and often causes obscure problems for users.
@@ -129,13 +125,9 @@ install only what you need. This is the layout I am using for Red Hat and
 Fedora RPMs:
 
 mencoder         contains MEncoder binary (mencoder)
-mplayer          contains MPlayer binary without GUI (mplayer),
-                 config files, man pages and documentation;
-                 required by mplayer-gui
+mplayer          contains MPlayer binary config files, man pages and
+                 documentation;
 mplayer-codecs-* contain binary codecs available from MPlayer's site
-mplayer-gui      contains MPlayer binary with GUI (gmplayer);
-                 contains default skin (Blue)
-mplayer-skin-*   contain various MPlayer GUI skins
 
 There is no strict policy for now, just use your common sense.
 
@@ -200,14 +192,8 @@ ao=alsa,
 
 Tips and tricks
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-In my package layout, mplayer and mplayer-gui can be installed at the same
-time, because they contain differently named binaries and there is no
-conflict. The trick is to build MPlayer once with --enable-gui, rename the
-resulting binary to "gmplayer" and then build it again, without GUI, but
-keeping the rest of ./configure options the same.
-
-To provide man pages for all MPlayer suite binaries (mplayer, gmplayer,
-mencoder), you can use man-links instead of regular symbolic links.
+To provide man pages for all MPlayer suite binaries (mplayer, mencoder), you
+can use man-links instead of regular symbolic links.
 Creating a mencoder man page linked to mplayer is as simple as:
 
   echo ".so mplayer.1" >> mencoder.1