Re: [g-a-devel]Re: Proposed implementation agnostic GNOME Speech API.

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Michael Meeks wrote:

> Hi Rich,
>
> On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 17:47, Rich Burridge wrote:
>  
>
> > In short, I've created an implementation agnostic set of wrappers for
> > the existing GNOME Speech v0.2.X API that used GObject. It hides the
> > existing Bonobo/ORBit2 implementation under the covers.
> >    
>
> 	Sounds good to me. It was never very pleasant to have the randomness of
> which backend the bonobo-activation query returned to give you the
> speech driver; makes sense to codify at least that in a small shlib.
I think there may be some misinderstanding here; RIch's code doesn't 
address this issue.  It wraps the same "give me a list" API.

The backend that you get can be identified by name and invoked; it's not 
very sophisticated (you can't query servers by capability yet, other 
than by the presence of the 'Callbacks' API), but you can identify them 
by name.

>  
>
> > I've also rewritten the speech related code in gnopernicus to use
> > this new API, but I haven't attached that work yet, until the
> > community feel that this is a good thing to do.
> >    
>
> 	Sounds like it'd be useful now; and good to get this into 2.6.
>  
I don't think this is useful,  since it's only C wrappers. 

> > I know the API/ABI freeze for GNOME 2.5/6 has already happened, so
> > this is something we'd like to consider for GNOME 2.7/8.
> >    
> 	Sure; but as Jeff says - that's not for your bit really, so ... if it's
> ready, lets go for it.
>  
Freeze is still recommended for 'Desktop'.  I certainly don't think we 
should rush something like this into 2.6 since it doesn't provide any 
new functionality - even if there's a strong feeling that it solves some 
existing problem.

- Bill

> 	Regards,
>
> 		Michael.
>
>