Re: Proposed module: cheese

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Dec 21, 2007 9:06 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 04:52 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/
> > svn/git/bzr/...: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/cheese/
> > Proposal on d-d-l: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-September/msg00289.html
> >
> > Short description:
> > ==================
> > cheese is a photobooth-inspired GNOME application for taking pictures
> > and videos from a webcam. it also includes fancy graphical effects based
> > on the gstreamer-backend. further releases will include conduit support
> > for exchanging pictures and videos and some opengl-love to speed things
> > up
>
> <disclaimer>
> This is an analysis of the documentation, made on behalf of the
> Gnome Documentation Team.  It does not necessarily reflect my
> personal opinion of the module or its suitability for inclusion
> in Gnome.  In many cases, I have not made extension use of the
> applications or libraries provided.  Further insufficiencies in
> the documentation may become more apparent with more use.
> </disclaimer>
>
> Cheese has a manual, though it is largely a stub, and it hasn't
> seen any commits in two weeks.  The Cheese developers have not
> approached the Gnome Documentation Team about the documentation.
>
> (Reminder: proposing an undocumented module is not a problem.
> Hackers are often not good writers, and we don't expect that
> people bring fully documented programs to our doorstep.  But
> if you need documentation help, you need to contact us early.)
>
I'm one of the developers of cheese and feel that cheese is not ready
yet for inclusion because

1) We completely refactored the gstreamer backend and haven't had a
release since. So I'm not sure if it works well for every webcam
2) Cheese needs more HIG love
3) Also feature wise it needs some more things for it to be 1.0
material (preference dialog, ability to select multiple items in the
icon view
4) And as Shaun is mentioning, we need a manual

I think it's better to wait for 2.24

Jaap