Comment 19 for bug 857243

Bug still present in Ubuntu 13.04
I like mplayer without gui frontends: I only use his keyboard shortcuts, and the minimal window with just the titlebar is perfect (actually, a border-only window with the Unity top title bar would be even better)
But without a .desktop file, I can't open a video file with it without passing through the terminal. I can't, for example, do open with -> mplayer. And there's no icon on dash / switcher / launcher.