Bug#699695: gnome-mplayer: should read and use any mplayer configuration file

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

Package: gnome-mplayer
Version: 1.0.7-4
Severity: wishlist

Hello,
as clarified in  http://bugs.debian.org/699394#39 , gnome-mplayer
ignores any user-defined setting found in ~/.mplayer/config .

I don't think this is a good idea: I would like to avoid configuring
the same program (mplayer) over and over again, just because I use
it through different interfaces!

I would like to suggest that gnome-mplayer should read and use
(or let mplayer read and use) the settings found in ~/.mplayer/config ,
so that my preferences for mplayer are enforced within gnome-mplayer
too.

I hope my reasoning makes sense to you.

Please implement this new feature and/or forward my wishlist bug
report upstream.

Thanks for your time!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-mplayer depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.12.1-3
ii  libasound2                                   1.0.25-4
ii  libc6                                        2.13-37
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.2-2
ii  libcurl3-gnutls                              7.26.0-1
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.6.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.100-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.33.12+really2.32.4-3
ii  libgmlib1                                    1.0.7-1
ii  libgmtk1                                     1.0.7-1
ii  libgpod4                                     0.8.2-7
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.4.2-5
ii  libmusicbrainz3-6                            3.0.2-2.1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a                      3.4.2-1+build1
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.5-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxss1                                      1:1.2.2-1
ii  mplayer2 [mplayer]                           2.0-554-gf63dbad-1+b1

gnome-mplayer recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-mplayer suggests:
ii  gecko-mediaplayer  1.0.6-1

-- no debconf information