FreeBSD Port: vlc-0.8.6.c_5,2 (Volume bar position)

martinko gamato at users.sf.net
Sat Jan 19 08:31:47 PST 2008


Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:15:45 -0600, Mark Kane <mark at mkproductions.org> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone.
>>
>> I've noticed a problem in VLC recently with the position of the volume
>> bar. I did some searching and found this thread on the VLC forums:
>>
>> http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=40525
>>
>> The volume bar on different FreeBSD machines of mine looks the same as
>> that screenshot. The second post down says to use wxgtk2.6 instead of
>> 2.8, so I rebuilt VLC with "USE_WX=2.6" in the Makefile on two
>> different FreeBSD machines and it solved the volume bar problem.
>>
>> Is there any specific reason that the port uses 2.8? If not, then could
>> it be updated in the tree to use 2.6 to fix the volume bar problem? I
>> can submit a PR/patch if necessary.
> 
> Please submit a PR with patch for we don't forget or/and miss it. I am 
> not sure if I am right, I think VLC developers are ditching WX for QT.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> -Mark
> 
> 

The same issue here. :-(

Please fix the port.

Thanks! :)



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