Re: RFC: Ideas for preferences dialog

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

hi,

Quoting "daniel g. siegel" <dgsiegel gmail com>:

> On Mi, 2008-04-02 at 14:09 -0700, James Liggett wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 23:40 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote:
> > > GConf as such is not that poirtable (or it won't make sense). But  
> >  unless someone
> > > plans to port Cheese to Mac or Win32, just ignore my comment.
> > Based on some quick googling, it seems your point is perfectly valid. I
> > honestly have no idea what our broader portability priorities are. As it
> > stands now, we just use GConf directly, so anyone wanting to port to Mac
> > or Windows would probably need to rip out CheeseGConf and reimplement it
> > anyway. We don't have the fancy backend stuff like Buzztard does ;)
> >
> > To all: Seeing that Stefan brought it up, it might be worth asking
> > before I make changes: Do we want to make portability to non Unix
> > platforms a priority here? I think it would be wise if we covered our
> > bases and did so. If this is the case I will (grudgingly) leave
> > CheeseGConf as-is for now.
>
> well.. to be honest: we use v4l/v4l2, wich is definitely a linux-only
> thing. i can imagine, that cheese might work on a bsd platform, it works
> on a maemo platform, but thats it.

Like we have autoaudiosink and autovideosink, I was planning to add  
audioaudisrc and autovideosrc to gstreamer one day. Then under win32  
you would automatically get a directshowsrc :). The wonders of  
gstreamer.

Stefan
> so if there isnt a "port" of v4l/v4l2 to windows or mac, i would just
> ignore the portability and concentrate on something good on linux.
>
> daniel
>
> > Thanks,
> > James
> >
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