Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Re: You are missing the point



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Your mail message gave me a good feeling.  I have a suggestion:

Phase 1: calling GnomeMeeting from Gaim.  There would be a
GtkToggleButton (in button style, not checkbox) called "Video" in the
Gaim chat window, which when depressed (not sad! =) would launch
GnomeMeeting and initiate a session with the remote user.

Phase 2: embedding GnomeMeeting from Gaim.  The same button would
remain.  But now doing so would unhide a GnomeMeeting pane, that is, a
GtkContainer which is empty, and upon unhiding, a GM Bonobo control
would embed itself there and start a video session with the other user. 
Since you do not need to see your face all the time, below the video
window can be a button that lets you toggle between the other user's and
your own face (video feed), but it will DFAULT to seeing the other one,
or perhaps your own face til the video link is established.

Phase 2 would entail the bonobification of GnomeMeeting, and the
preparation of GM for reception of the GM bonobo component.

Let's hope this frankenstein doesn't go mad on us.  Or that lightning
bolts aren't necessary to bring it to life (oh, my old burnt mobo).

For this to be successful, it's crucial that the GM bonobo component
does as much as it can automatically to ease the task of the Gaim
people.  Perhaps GM could export different components with different
functionality (GMSimpleBonoboControl, GMBonoboControl,
GMComplicatedBonoboControl, GMDriveMeLikeAFerrariBonoboControl).

El jue, 11-12-2003 a las 14:49, Damien Sandras escribió:
> Le jeu 11/12/2003 à 20:18, Manuel Amador a écrit :
> > Hmmm....  The *real* challenge is to make GnomeMeeting as easy to use as
> > iChat *while* keeping its excellent videoconf specialization
> > untarnished.
> > 
> > The whole point is having a single app or a set of bonobo components,
> > not two different apps, and I second you in that.  But I think it's
> > possible to do what Eugenia wants, without forking.  You see, I wouldn't
> > mind if, e.g., instead of an integrated chat/AV app like iChat, I could
> > seamlessly open a GnomeMeeting AV session that was LINKED but in a
> > separate window.
> 
> The ultimate purpose is to :
> - Keep specializing gnomemeeting in videoconferencing and Voice Over IP
> - Have a Bonobo component (or whatever equivalent) reusable in
> applications like Gaim but also like Evolution (appointments)
> transparently
> 
> What we can currently offer with the current code is calling
> GnomeMeeting in the background from Gaim. Notice applications like KMess
> already support MSN Invitations, ie your Win98 correspondant right-click
> to open a video session, it launches Netmeeting on Win98 and
> GnomeMeeting on Linux, everything is transparent for the user.
> 
> However, I repeat it, supporting proprietary protocols are not an
> objective for us.
-- 
	Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
	GPG key ID: keyserver.net C1033CAD

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